External USB HD issues with a twist (works on Windows7 but not XP)

[Eruditass]

I have this older external USB HD, 160 GB. I was using it to copy my Steam games to another computer. On the source computer, Windows 7 64-bit, everything worked fine. Drive reported no errors, had no hiccups, etc.

Plugging it into the Windows XP 32-bit computer, it worked fine for looking through the files, moving files around on it (no real reading/writing, just modifying the filesystem table). However, when copying files from it to my internal HD, after a couple seconds to tens of minutes (seemingly random times), the USB device becomes unrecognized and it reports a delayed write error.

Events in system log go like this, chronologically:

(number times displayed)xSource (Event ID): "message"

2xdisk (51): An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1\D during a paging operation.

1xftdisk (57): The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur.

1xApplication popup (26): Windows - Delayed Write Failed : Windows was unable to save all the data for the file E:\$Mft. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file elsewhere.

1xntfs (50): {Delayed Write Failed} Windows was unable to save all the data for the file . The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file elsewhere.

These repeat for a while, then there is 10+ disk messages or ftdisk messages.

Other notes:

- This occurs on random files at random times.
- Disconnecting and reconnecting the drive maintains the unrecognized device status
- Turning off and then on fixes it. The same files that failed will copy just fine, but it will soon fail randomly
- This problem cannot be replicated on the Windows 7 source machine when copying from the HD to a different location on its local disk
- chkdsk /f was run and found no errors. chkdsk /f/r has the delayed write issue.
- drive was set to quick removal. Setting to performance in device manager yielded same result
- I am not writing anything to the USB external drive, so I am not sure why there is even a delayed write error (writing file access times?)
- local Windows XP was chkdsk'd without problems
- Windows XP machine has no problems with other USB HD's
- Various USB ports were attempted
- Rebooting did not help
- Occurs with SyncToy as well as windows explorer
- SMART status is good on both local drive and the external one
- Lack of gaming is making me cranky