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k people here is the scoop...

I have a computer with a ECS mother board p4 running @ 1.6Ghz , 80gig maxtor hard drive and 1 gig ddr ram running Windows XP professional with SP2...

I ordered a Seagate Barracuda 250 gig hard drive with a kingwin external HD enclosure running USB 2.0

now, when I attempted to transfer files from my internal IDE hard drive to my Seagate I Get this error

"Write Delay Error....data couldn't be saved all data is lost...."

i have checked all over the net and this seems to be a big problem with XP users...my question is

how can I get this mutha fucka to work...
should I bite the bullet and go Linux, XP is pissing me off and if it wasn't for certain programs that I need I would piss on Bill Gates

has anyone encountered this problem....apparently XP SuXxOrs at teh life and gets PwNeD by big hard drives....

ohh and can some one recommend the best version of Linux to use...I have Knoppx 3.7 live CD that I use to fix my comp when it gets owned under XP....

I have been at this for three days and I am going crazy any help would be appreciated thanks...

Kain i better hear some thing from you especially...if anyone can help I know you can....

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What programs specifically do you need WinXP for?

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try the external drive in another pc, very doubtful but check to see if the cd that came with the ext case are the drivers installed, maybe try reformatting the hard drive... are you sure you have the pins fully inserted?

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I use XP for mIRC, Adobe ---- and such...its actually my brother who needs all that ---- under XP...he couldn't work under a linux enviroment if his life depended on it

We tried the external HD on a laptop IBM 500 Mhz with USB 1.1 and XP SP2....it recognized the HD automatically and we were able to transfer files with no errors....but its slow as balls....

my main tower recognized the hard drive as 232 gigs and we formatted the hard drive...this is the main computer that I am having trouble with....

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Is there a reason it needs to be external? I mean why not just putit inside the tower, wouldn't that solve your problems if you just ran it as a normal slave drive?

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i wanted to run it external so I can back up the data on my laptop too...my network goes down alot and I try to share a connection between my two computers thats why i wanted an external...

I will try to install the hard drive internally to see if XP can handle it....

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Took the words out of my mouth. :D Try those and come back to us.

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SCREW EVERYONE ELSES' COMMENTS AND GO TO LINUX!!!


lol. no bro, go to linux and you wont have no probleemos. just a buncha headaches trying to figure out ----, not on how to get it to work cus it either will or it wont in linux.

my best choice in os's is SimplyMepis Version 3.3.1-1

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For the casual Linux user (non-command line) you could check out Red Hat

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yeah if you wanbt total fucken headaches. redhat is a fucken pain in the ass bro. get a holding hand odd like mepis and your set. no dependancy problems to worry about.

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so this is the sit rep...

I tried linux but i had to format my hard drive to FAT32....for some reason Linux wouldn't let me use NTFS to write...

simplyMepis and knoppix 3.9 wouldn't even detect my mouse....

formatted the drive went back under windows...

installed the drive internally and BAM....the muthafucka works...

then I lost 256 DDR ram for some reason...turned out that i un seated it by accident...

ram installed proper....back in business...

but now XP doesn't detect my CD rom and CD writer...----!!!

I think its a hard ware issue but this is more headaches than I need... the external hard drive enclosure is now housing my Iomega 250MB Zip Drive...------- ---- hasn't been used in YEARS!!!....

an update to come on my CD-rom issue...

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run win2k pro or something...xp isnt the only windows os.

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fat 32? no way jose.

also, if they couldnt detect your mouse then it aint linux's problem. its your mouse thats fubared. PERIODO!!

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sounds more like User error rather than the OS.

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ID 10 T error??????

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XP is probably the best bet there is. I would of course go to XP Pro, not the Home crap. XP is based on 2000NT, so it will be the most stable of the shitty Microsoft OS's

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XP pro is Home w/ Networking BS ::)

Dude.. try other USB Ports.

Are you hooking it up to the ones beside where the mouse goes? Try hooking it up to where the front ones are (if equipped).

Did it work for a Fresh XP install?

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One problem with xp that we found and my old work (computer shop) is that when changeing mouther boards hard drives some times have a hard time to keep the info and reuse it with the new mouther board

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It sounds to me like you had a slow USB device (kb, mouse, scanner, etc) on the same USB controller as the one the plugged the HD into. If that's the case, the port will drop speed to the slowest device on it and your HD goes from 480mb/s transfer down to 1.5mb/s. Unplug all other usb devices on that controller and it will probably work fine.

Since it works internally, your MB supports 48 bit logical block addressing which is necessary for it to recognize anything over 137 megs and XP sp1 enabled that in the OS. That would have been my next suggestion..

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this can be solved by reinserting the XP Cd and "repairing" the installation ;)