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Well, i definitly appreciate the info and help. I set the size for PF on the drive and behold it worked..... only once - I sent over a folder with 4 videos about 489megs and it went over smoothly - but after that everything went back to shit - USB freezes again - Tried firewire and it worked once also - since then everything gets delayed write failed even with one small file. plus anytime i turn on the HD and open the HD folder explorer.exe uses al lthe CPU power and i cant do anything unless i shut it off. I think Seagate just isnt 'compatible' with my PC - Anyone interested in buying this from me? 160gig xternal for 280$ yep thats how much i paid for it and i cant get my money back :)

Thanx for the info - ill give a try

that was the first thing i had went to try - disabling the cache - but by default it was already set to disabled. how would i go about increasing the pagefile/another partition - or is the PF increased with the disabling of the cache.

not using a VIA chipset (at least im pretty sure im not) any other possible solution? :D

hey - newbie here I recently had bought a Seagate 160gig Xternal HD and at first i thought i was having a problem with the HD but my replacment got here and im getting the same problems. I get the "Delayed Write Failed" error message when i try to use Firewire - i get a system freeze when i try to use USB 2.0 and nothing bad happens when i use USB 1 - Anyone know what i can do or at least try to do to help remedy this problem? Write cache is disabled so i know thats not the problem. No conflicts or anything are the cause either im sure. maybe its something simple i can do to fix this problem that im missing? Seagates tech support isnt helping me much or at all, they just keep telling me to get the warranty info and try to get a replacement again. Any info is much appreciated and thanx in advance :)