1. Did you create the partition prior to formatting? If not, get your files off that drive then remove all partitions, create a new one then format that one.
2. Is said drive plugged into the front USB port? If so, plug it in the read USB port.
So I purchased a new Western Digital 320 IDE hard drive that was on sale and an AcomData 3.5" enclosure. I put everything together and format the drive to NTFS (for Windows XP).
I start transferring files and everything is going smooth. I had planned on moving about 200 gigs of stuff into this drive, but then an error occured.
I get this message: Cannot copy "filename": Cannot find the specified file. Make sure you specify the correct path and file name.
Then the drive dissapears and I get a "Delayed Write Failed" message.
Then the autorun comes up and goes away.
So I unmount the drive, turn it off, remove the USB, and replug and turn back on.
The drive comes back and everything looks fine. So I transfer the file that caused the error and it works. I go back to transferring multiple files and the same thing happens!
I've never seen this error before and I've had many external hard drives (including internals with enclosures).

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