Windows - Delayed Write Failed

[DragonRider]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Oh BAM! This thing is fast. Installed XP, loaded chipset driver, connected to the Internet, downloaded latest video driver (thanks Herr-Berbunch), restarting each time. All together, took about 20 minutes

Welcome to the world of SSD drives Using the SSD drive as the C: drive only and saving all other file to a slave drive saves filling up the SSD.
although saying that if you also install SH3 or 4,5 to it well stand back

[DragonRider]

Originally Posted by DragonRider

Welcome to the world of SSD drives Using the SSD drive as the C: drive only and saving all other file to a slave drive saves filling up the SSD.
although saying that if you also install SH3 or 4,5 to it well stand back

The slave drive is a name only no need to set the Sata drive to slave jump settings,

[Onkel Neal]

Ok, cool. yeah, I discovered that I could simply mount the original HD and it showed up. Added the new 1TB and formatted it, and it showed up.

[Onkel Neal]

Ok, from pushing the power ON button to desktop, 14 seconds.

Now the loading of old programs, setting up email, getting everything copied.

[Onkel Neal]

I plugged in the original HD without changing any jumper settings, just to see what would happen. Hey, what do you know? It shows up in My Computer, perfectly accessible, just like Dragon said it would. Well, almost--I cannot get to the c /documents and settings/user/local settings/application data/ files on the original HD, It tells me access denied. But I can reboot and choose the original HD as the boot device and get to that stuff, then reboot with the new SSD.

And so, the day is saved, and I went about setting up all the drivers, installing Outlook and moving over my PSTs, MS Office, WS_ftp and the site files, etc.

Last, I added the new 1TB backup HD, formatted it, and bam, I have a ton of space to back up files. Western Digital thoughtfully provided Acronis True Image WD edition for that, but it seems to choke, telling me it will take 4 days to do the backup (after 7 hours, the whole PC stops responding). Can anyone suggest a good backup program? I also have Norton Ghost 10 from a couple years ago, I might install that and give it a try.

[DragonRider]

I suspect its something to do with using XP and that program.
However Norton should work just fine.
Also the two Weston Digital Green 1tb drives I have installed also seem to struggle
Keeping up with the Corsair M4 SSD drive I have installed as the main C: drive

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Western Digital thoughtfully provided Acronis True Image WD edition for that, but it seems to choke, telling me it will take 4 days to do the backup (after 7 hours, the whole PC stops responding). Can anyone suggest a good backup program?

Anything else?

[Herr-Berbunch]

Sorry, I now remember reading that but forgot yesterday.

I'm just going to stay quiet now.

[DragonRider]

I’m not sure what you are trying to do.
But if you are attempting to create a “image” of your system drive and not copy
personal files the error you are encountering might be due to the fact you have already
added Windows Update files to your system.
To create an image of you system files for some reason this has to be done before you update window. As an image file can be used to re-boot your computer and restore it also so I think it then falls into copyright or something like that.

If you are wanting to copy or back-up your own files then there is always the good old right click and copy to option in my documents and also pick and drop

[longam]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

Anything else?

Acronis True Image is the best you can get to make a recoverable image of your system and usualy doesnt take long to do. Make a bootable CD to boot you PC to recover it with the image backup. I find just making a clean copy once after all setup and installation and updates is good enough.

If your trying to mirror your HD to another HD Acronis will do this but you need a blank HD. This will allow you to swap drives keeping your current setup.

Backing up your data to me is just having it at another location other than your main HD, if your main drive fails your data is safe. Of course backing up this drive to an external would be one step more. Copy and paste to move the files.

[DragonRider]

Originally Posted by longam

Acronis True Image is the best you can get to make a recoverable image of your system and usualy doesnt take long to do. Make a bootable CD to boot you PC to recover it with the image backup. I find just making a clean copy once after all setup and installation and updates is good enough.

If your trying to mirror your HD to another HD Acronis will do this but you need a blank HD. This will allow you to swap drives keeping your current setup.

Backing up your data to me is just having it at another location other than your main HD, if your main drive fails your data is safe. Of course backing up this drive to an external would be one step more. Copy and paste to move the files.

Please read the second post on this page again