Okay, have XP Pro with 2 250 Gig SATA drives, RAID ready, but not set up
using RAID, and 1 IDE 100 Gig drive.

I had a problem after a while with continuous write delay errors on one of
the SATA drives, which would say that "windows could not save the data
d:\foldername\foldername\foldername\somefile, the data was lost." These
errors would be intersperesed with D:\$Mft and D:\$Bitmap errors. The
errors would keep popping up until I disabled the drive. They happen
whether I'm accessing the drive or not. I got a new drive from Western
Digital, and after about 3 days of use the exact same thing happened.

I noticed that a lot of the files referred to were in Web folders, and am
thinking this is happening because:

1) Maybe it's that I have some Windows folders and files (ie. Inetpub,
Windows) on that drive, while the actual OS folder is on a different drive
2) Maybe it's because I have a huge number of folders, each w/ thousands of
files (although I don't think I go over 65,000 in any directory, but I'll
need to check; it's probably close)
3) Maybe it's because some of the folders have many scanned images that are
over 100 Mb (ie. a few hundred .psd files over 80 Mb)
4) Some combination of the above

On using Chkdsk, I see a lot of unreadable clusters now, although when the
problem first started chkdsk wouldn't have a problem.

I'm doing what I can to save the files elsewhere (again) and format all the
internal drives and start over (although after moving a few files, I get an
internal I/O error and have to reboot and try again). Anyone have
suggestions as to what went
wrong, and what I should do to avoid this issue in future (ie. not save Webs
in wwwroot folder on non-OS drive, make more folders with fewer trees in
each, etc.)?

Thanks for any advice, it's appreciated.\

When you installed the OS, did you use the most updated F6 drivers for your
motherboard?
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Ryan


"NewbieSupreme" wrote:

> Okay, have XP Pro with 2 250 Gig SATA drives, RAID ready, but not set up
> using RAID, and 1 IDE 100 Gig drive.
>
> I had a problem after a while with continuous write delay errors on one of
> the SATA drives, which would say that "windows could not save the data
> d:\foldername\foldername\foldername\somefile, the data was lost." These
> errors would be intersperesed with D:\$Mft and D:\$Bitmap errors. The
> errors would keep popping up until I disabled the drive. They happen
> whether I'm accessing the drive or not. I got a new drive from Western
> Digital, and after about 3 days of use the exact same thing happened.
>
> I noticed that a lot of the files referred to were in Web folders, and am
> thinking this is happening because:
>
> 1) Maybe it's that I have some Windows folders and files (ie. Inetpub,
> Windows) on that drive, while the actual OS folder is on a different drive
> 2) Maybe it's because I have a huge number of folders, each w/ thousands of
> files (although I don't think I go over 65,000 in any directory, but I'll
> need to check; it's probably close)
> 3) Maybe it's because some of the folders have many scanned images that are
> over 100 Mb (ie. a few hundred .psd files over 80 Mb)
> 4) Some combination of the above
>
> On using Chkdsk, I see a lot of unreadable clusters now, although when the
> problem first started chkdsk wouldn't have a problem.
>
> I'm doing what I can to save the files elsewhere (again) and format all the
> internal drives and start over (although after moving a few files, I get an
> internal I/O error and have to reboot and try again). Anyone have
> suggestions as to what went
> wrong, and what I should do to avoid this issue in future (ie. not save Webs
> in wwwroot folder on non-OS drive, make more folders with fewer trees in
> each, etc.)?
>
> Thanks for any advice, it's appreciated.\
>
>
>

Hi,

Download a drive diagnostic from the manufacturer and run it to check the
state of the drive. It may be failing (have you had any SMART errors?), or
there may be bad sectors that are starting to spread (they never do get
better). It might be a candidate for replacement.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"NewbieSupreme" <newbiesupreme@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:O_udnfDnd4tfsQfeRVn-pg@comcast.com...
> Okay, have XP Pro with 2 250 Gig SATA drives, RAID ready, but not set up
> using RAID, and 1 IDE 100 Gig drive.
>
> I had a problem after a while with continuous write delay errors on one of
> the SATA drives, which would say that "windows could not save the data
> d:\foldername\foldername\foldername\somefile, the data was lost." These
> errors would be intersperesed with D:\$Mft and D:\$Bitmap errors. The
> errors would keep popping up until I disabled the drive. They happen
> whether I'm accessing the drive or not. I got a new drive from Western
> Digital, and after about 3 days of use the exact same thing happened.
>
> I noticed that a lot of the files referred to were in Web folders, and am
> thinking this is happening because:
>
> 1) Maybe it's that I have some Windows folders and files (ie. Inetpub,
> Windows) on that drive, while the actual OS folder is on a different drive
> 2) Maybe it's because I have a huge number of folders, each w/ thousands
> of
> files (although I don't think I go over 65,000 in any directory, but I'll
> need to check; it's probably close)
> 3) Maybe it's because some of the folders have many scanned images that
> are
> over 100 Mb (ie. a few hundred .psd files over 80 Mb)
> 4) Some combination of the above
>
> On using Chkdsk, I see a lot of unreadable clusters now, although when the
> problem first started chkdsk wouldn't have a problem.
>
> I'm doing what I can to save the files elsewhere (again) and format all
> the
> internal drives and start over (although after moving a few files, I get
> an internal I/O error and have to reboot and try again). Anyone have
> suggestions as to what went
> wrong, and what I should do to avoid this issue in future (ie. not save
> Webs
> in wwwroot folder on non-OS drive, make more folders with fewer trees in
> each, etc.)?
>
> Thanks for any advice, it's appreciated.\
>
>