Calibretto
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I have an external hard drive. Every so often a window pops up in the system tray. heres a pic.
What is this?
What is this?
delayed write failed
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Well, I know what the MFT is.. That's the Master File Table (or was that Marriage and Family Therapist?? I always get the two confused. 
) That's something the WD HDDs are famous for. It sounds like the MFT is pooched...corrupted...toast. Usually this indicates a failure of the drive. I would backup your data immediately if it were me.
) That's something the WD HDDs are famous for. It sounds like the MFT is pooched...corrupted...toast. Usually this indicates a failure of the drive. I would backup your data immediately if it were me.
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You would say something lame like that for sure about WD. Missing partition information if that is the case does not indicate hardware failures. You may have to reformat a drive if this information can't be restored. Periodic backups prevent massive loss of data if and when a drive does actaully fail.
Yup, because you have absolutely no idea how many WDs I've seen do that. I'm beginning to think it's their trademark. That and *click click click*. Their signature finishing moves.
He might get away with reformatting it and that might fix the problem, but then again he might not. Hard to say. Usually it's a hardware failure.
In any event I would backup the data immediately.
He might get away with reformatting it and that might fix the problem, but then again he might not. Hard to say. Usually it's a hardware failure.
In any event I would backup the data immediately.
Calibretto
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All I have is a gig of music which can easily be restored. I have the music on CDs. but about the problem. Should I re-format?
Another Microsoft page regarding the Event ID 50 error can be read at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816004