delayed write corrupts my drives
occasionally I get a message saying delayed write failed for the letter of a drive. then the drive gets corrupt. it has done this unrecoverably with a usb flash disk and a virtual hard disk. luckily nothing serious happened to my c: drive. how can I completely disable delayed write for ALL drives?1 person needs an answerI do too
November 28th, 2010 3:24pm

If the Drive is corrupt you can format it in Disk Management. To disable delayed write (write caching) plug it in. Open Device Manager, Expand Disk drives, Double click your drive, Choose the Policies Tab, Choose Optimize for quick removal.
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November 28th, 2010 10:51pm

I know how to do that, but one that option is disabled for my local hard drive which has been corrupted but nothing serious just a chkdsk can fix it. and two I can't do that with my virtual disk. I want to disable it forALL drives. but thanks for trying to help. ( :
December 1st, 2010 7:20pm

When you uncheck "Enable write caching on the disk" that disables it. The other options are greyed out for local hard drives. The option to disable write caching for your virtual disk is in the settings.
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December 2nd, 2010 5:30pm

where can I get to those "settings" for the virtual disk?
December 3rd, 2010 10:46am

Sorry, maybe I misunderstood, I thought you had a Virtual PC Program installed on your computer, do you?, if so which one?.
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December 3rd, 2010 6:30pm

yes I have Vmware player and it was a vmware virtual disk that got corrupt
December 3rd, 2010 8:16pm

I had VM quite some time ago, I removed it and installed Virtual PC 2007 ( not as good as VM but free) I have since removed that too, but there was a setting in Virtual PC 2007 for write caching, I wish I could tell you there is one in VMware but I do not know, I can only assume there should be.
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December 3rd, 2010 8:32pm

either it doesn't or I can't find it yet. but anyways isn't there a way to disable delayed write for all drives and make it the default for any new drives that I may ever have? or did microsoft just not put that feature in xp because if there is i'd like to know about it even if you have to edit the regeistry to do it.
December 4th, 2010 1:41pm

There is no system wide setting to disable write caching. Try this:In the VMware server management console: Power down the Virtual Machine, Then go to the settings, Select hard disk, go to advanced, Untick Write Caching.Restart the Virtual Machine, Enjoy faster hard disk access times!
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December 4th, 2010 3:36pm

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