New Maxtor 120GB added, XP hangs, explorer restarts HELP

[Iggy]

XP is on old 20GB drive, I even made swap partition on the
new 120Gig drive... Often the explorer restarts and the
icons on my desktop blink and reload... It didn't happen
before so I suspect that it's new hard drive related.

When system was installed on the new drive, although 8000
rpm drive it was much slower to wake up from sleep mode
and now when the system is on old drive, sometime system
hangs when just trying to see My Computer...

Small drive is NTFS, new big one is still FAT32. Small
drive is master on primary IDE bus, the other is master on
secondary. I have just CDR as slave on secondary and
regular CDROM as slave on primary bus. Everything seems to
work fine other than explorer restarts that sometimes
closes all the apps I'm working on which is not
acceptable.

PLEASE HELP THANKS!

 

[DL]

2nd hd should be installed as slave.
ie First master, 2nd slave

 

[Alex Nichol]

XP is on old 20GB drive, I even made swap partition on the
new 120Gig drive... Often the explorer restarts and the
icons on my desktop blink and reload... It didn't happen
before so I suspect that it's new hard drive related.

When system was installed on the new drive, although 8000
rpm drive it was much slower to wake up from sleep mode
and now when the system is on old drive, sometime system
hangs when just trying to see My Computer...

Small drive is NTFS, new big one is still FAT32. Small
drive is master on primary IDE bus, the other is master on
secondary. I have just CDR as slave on secondary and
regular CDROM as slave on primary bus.

I'd suggest that FAT 32 at a partition size as big as 120GB is likely to
run into problems. XP in fact will not *make* a FAT 32 one over 32GB,
though it will use them. But one over 64GB will have been made by some
other system, and aspects of it may not be consistent with what is
expected. Convert it to NTFS (see www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.htm) or
better reformat by deleting it and making an NTFS one