XPost: alt.windows7.general   
   From: address@is.invalid   
      
   Hello all,   
      
   On a machine runnung XPsp3 :   
      
   A while ago  tried to copy a couple of 1...4 GB files to an USB stick, and   
   it threw the "delayed write failed" error (after a couple of hundred MByte),   
   after which the machine froze and I had to power-cycle it to get it to   
   respond again (not even the task-manager wanted to come up).   
      
   A bit of googeling gave me the answer : unticking "Enable write caching on   
   the disk" - even though that was in a section that was grayed out because   
   its parent, "Optimize for performance", wasn't selected ("Optimize for quick   
   removal" was).   
      
   No, the question is not why I had to untick something in a grayed-out   
   section, don't worry. :-)   
      
   My question is even worse than that :   
      
   Does anyone know (or have a link to an MS article to) why that the "delayed   
   writing" (which I assume was still doing its job) causes such a big problem   
   ?   
      
   And don't worry, its just curiosity.  There is nothing hanging on the   
   answer.   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
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