"Windows - Delayed Write Failed"

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Hi guys,

I need some help.
Basically I just realized that I have had an external 500gb WD hard drive around the house still in its packaging.

As I connected it, WD begain to format it and install all kinds of "MyBook" software. I however accidentally pulled out the usb cord. This caused all sorts of errors and the program would no longer start up. I then gave up on the WD software and ust did a format of the entire external drive in windows...

The problem is now I get a "Windows - Delayed Write Failed" error all of the time which pretty much corrupts most of the files I try to put on it and even won't let me delete others...

At first Windows told me to run chkdsk which I did and aparetly it fixed the file structure, but I continue to have this problem. Can anyone help me out with this please?

In the past when I got this error it usually meant the HD was failing but it sounds perfectly healthy and is brand new. I also ran the diagnostic tools from WD which all said the HD was healthy. I would really appreciate some help. TIA.
 
I made the mistake of buying a Mybook drive once. Once, and that mistake will never happen again.:mad:

Any drive that requires any special software will never pollute one of my systems again. I tried a Mybook World drive, and I took it back to Microcenter the next day. What a slow, unreliable, useless piece of crap.:(

If you cannot access an external drive through the standard windoz drivers, run, don't walk back to your retailer and get something else.:rolleyes:

I now run with a Hammer Storage Myshare NAS box, and do backups to 20$ generic USB external boxes that I installed the drives in. No crappy special software, and no problems.:)

Did I make myself clear enough? Did you save your receipt?:cool:

I am not kidding.:D

Don
 
Actually, before returning it - have you tried formatting the WD drive? (Since it's new, I'm assuming you don't have anything on there of importance). In my experience, I've found that formatting the My Book USB drives really helps things out a lot - no silly WD software auto-starting. (Of course, that software is great for my mom, who really could use the nice "push the button back up files" type of interface...but for most people on this forum, it's superfluous.)
 
We run a pair of the 1 TB MyBook drives at work. We used to get the delayed write failed errors on USB. We switched to the firewire connection and haven't had any problems since. I don't know if that is an option for you, but I recommend it if it is.
 
I have the MyBook 500GB drive (basic, USB only). I just formatted the thing, and it works just like every other USB2 drive I have, no drivers or nonsense here. Ironically, I moved to USB2 because I had problems with Firewire always dropping drives.

My only complaint is that the MyBook is ridiculously slow, and spins down too fast (which tends to cause the system it's hooked up to to stall momentarily while windows spins it up to do whatever inexplicable stuff windows does--why an OS needs to scan every drive in the system to open a simple file I'll never know).

I've only had delayed write errors on external drives with either a) bad controllers in the enclosure or b) failing drives in the enclosure (or c) I was impatient and yanked it before "stopping" the thing).
 
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