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Name: Chris Bessert
Date: April 29, 2002 at 14:09:19 Pacific
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I just installed 2 40 GB Maxtor Hard disks on my HP Vectra VL400 MT. It seems to be okay, but I get "Windows- Delayed Write Failed" messages when I'm working in Windows 2000 Professional. They are connected as primary and slave on a single IDE slot. I tried to reformat the secondary drive but it tells me that it is too big to be formatted. What do I do. Thanks



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Response Number 1
Name: Mack
Date: April 29, 2002 at 14:38:58 Pacific
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You have to format a drive that large in NTFS format - FAT will not support that large of a drive.


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Response Number 2
Name: Ralph
Date: April 29, 2002 at 15:01:08 Pacific
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FAT32 will.


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Response Number 3
Name: jacko
Date: April 29, 2002 at 15:08:09 Pacific
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Will setting the jumpers to cable select make a difference?


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Response Number 4
Name: Jeff
Date: April 29, 2002 at 15:13:58 Pacific
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Both are right. FAT32 can support up to 8 Terrabytes, but the underlying FORMAT util used in W2K's disk manager (DOS-based) won't allow FAT32 on anything over 32GB. Microsoft's reasoning is two-fold.

ScanDisk, the FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 repair util, is 16-bit, so it can't support much more than 32GB. Also, File Allocation Tables become enormous as disk size reaches such sizes, where NTFS becomes the performance leader.

Whatever, it's either NTFS which doesn't support dual-booting, or split into multiple partitions with FAT32.


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Response Number 5
Name: Jeff
Date: April 29, 2002 at 15:28:41 Pacific
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Unfortunately, Cable Select can't solve this problem. It was originally intended as a way for the BIOS to set the master and slave for us, so we wouldn't need to figure out with drive to jumper as what. As pointed out, this requires setting the jumpers anyway!


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Response Number 6
Name: Isaac
Date: June 6, 2002 at 16:21:54 Pacific
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Get Undelete 2.0 it worked for me when I had the same problem.


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Response Number 7
Name: Plopperdeplopperdepl
Date: June 28, 2002 at 06:28:31 Pacific
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dos...win2k muhahaha.. There is no more pure dos in win2k it only has a dos emulator and a COMMAND PROMPT which isn't quite dos. Therefore the problem is not that it has a dos based format... I would look for the problem elsewhere.
I got to these pages looking for
"Windows - Delayed Write Failed
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Windows was unable to save all the data for the file \Device\LanmanRedirector\yyyyyyy\xxxxxxx$\notes\data\desktop.dsk. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file elsewhere"
(replaced our servername by yyyy and the userid$ with xxxxx$)

I think it is the system cache for the redirector that should be disabled... they had this on NT4.


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