"Windows Delayed write failure"

[zXen]

Hi,

When I load into Windows, after a short while I get the message:

" Windows was unable to save all the data for the file G:\$Bitmap. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save elsewhere."

My G drive is a new 320GB Seagate SATA drive that I bought a month ago from Overclockers
When, this happens then I can't do anything with that drive. I can't even see it in device manager. Though, when I check in BIOS it is still listed.

Could this be a Windows fault? or possibly a hardware defect?

Cheers

 

[zXen]

When I ran Speedfan it gave me:

Win9x:NO 64Bit:NO GiveIO:YES SpeedFan:YES
I/O properly initialized
Linked ISA BUS at $0290
Linked nVidia nForce3 250 SMBUS at $4C00
Linked nVidia nForce3 250 SMBUS at $4C40
Scanning ISA BUS at $0290...
IT8712F/IT8705F found on ISA at $290
SuperIO Chip=IT8712F
Scanning nForce2 SMBus at $4C00...
Scanning nForce2 SMBus at $4C40...
LM75 found on SMBus at $4E
SMART Enabled for drive 0
Found WDC WD800JB-00CRA1 (80.0GB)
SMART Enabled for drive 1
Found Maxtor 6Y120M0 (122.9GB)
Found ACPI temperature (40.0C)
End of detection


Doesn't look like my Seagate drive got detected... I have noticed that when I first boot up Windows I can do something like move over a file or delete something, then shortly after the noise that signals a USB device being connected/disconnected sounds and the error message i listed appears.