Enabling Write Caching in Windows 2000 May Cause File Loss

To provide enhanced data writing and reading speed, hard drive use caching techniques and write caching is one among them. The write caching is the method for hard drive to improve system performance by foreseeing what the system would do next.

To provide enhanced data writing and reading speed, hard disk use caching techniques and write caching is one among them. The write caching is the method for hard drive to improve system performance by foreseeing what the system would do next. If you have write caching enabled on your hard disk, when operating system sends write command to hard drive, it directly tells the system that write operation is complete (even though data hasn't been written to the disk yet). In some cases, when you enable write caching on Windows 2000, you might come across file loss situations. At this point, having a powerful File Recovery Software is required to sort out the issue.

When you enable the write caching on a hard disk, the hard drive gets the synchronization cache command when you turn off your computer and the cached data is written to your hard drive before the system shuts down. Although, if you shut down your computer after first shutdown, the hard drive does not get the synchronization cache command and doesn't write cached data to hard disk before the system shuts down.

This situation occurs when the write caching is enabled. When you come across this issue, you may face serious file loss situations and you might encounter blue screen or stop errors in Windows. This whole behavior makes all of your critical files inaccessible and you are required to find out the cause of the issue and perform File Recovery by fixing it.

Grounds of the issue

This issue might take place if the Microsoft Windows hard disk drivers do not properly process the write caching. This problem occurs with the SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) hard disk as the synchronize cache command is sent only to the SCSI hard rives.

In such situations, to get your lost files back, you need to carry out thorough scan of hard drive using powerful and advanced File Recovery Software. These software use effective scanning algorithms to recover all types of lost files. With interactive and simple graphical user interface, these software are quite easy to use. Due to read only and non destructive design, these software allow you to have safe and original File Recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery is the best ever made and award-winning software that can recover all types of lost files. It supports recovery from FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file system partitions. This software is compatible with Microsoft Windows 7 RC1, Vista, 2003, XP and 2000.

Robin Watson a student of Mass Communication doing research on file recovery software. He is also a freelancer for partition recovery.