I’m using Ghost v14.0 and when I do a backup it runs for 15 minutes or so and then gives me the message “Unable to write to file error EBAB03F1: The semaphore timeout period has expired”. I also get a Windows message that says" Delayed write failed cannot write file I:$Mft" (I: is my external drive). I am backing up to an external drive that is connected by USB. I had the same problem before and cured it by using the Win XP disk’s feature of repair. This time I reinstalled Windows and it didn’t fix it. I also reformatted the external drive last time but I haven’t because I would lose my first backup. I can drag-and-drop a folder to the drive using Win Explorer. Any suggestions?