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Windows was unable to save all the data for the file C:\WINDOWS. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file elseware.
Ok now I got the same error for multiple other directories. My mate just told me that the reason for this is because I have a SATA drive and Windows sees it as an external which is why it causes the data errors. This makes sense because my taskbar forever has the option for me to remove my C: drive as it is seen as such.
Problem is, when I enter my BIOS menu, I can't find the option to disable this. I have an Asus m2npv-mx motherboard.
I have a drive giving the same problems. Do you have an ATI GPU card?It's a Seagate. Barracuda 7200rpm 250gb recognised as ST3250620AS by the PC
Nope. Nvidia 7300. I also tried enabling the RAID option but then it doesn't detect the HD. I get an option to set arrays by pressing F10 but I don't really wanna mess around with that option.
I switched off the RAID and restarted and now my pc is idle on the windows desktop... awaiting another spontaneous failure. sigh
I don't want to switch it off lest it doesn't come back on. Don't have an external at the moment nor do I have money for a new one right now. It must persevere.
Hi, Your best option is to start in Safe mode and then run RegEdit.
You'll find the LargeSystemCache setting in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session
Manager\Memory Management.
Let me know if it was set to 1. Chance are that some files are already corrupted. Don't know if the computer will work flawlessly from now.
Good luck!
Thanks. I will try checking the registry in safe mode next time the pc fails (will leave it be for now). Do you know how to turn off delay writing? I think that would be key to solving the problem. Then I can safely restore all the corrupt/missing files in the windows directory.
