SATA 750gb drive dissapears

[EthanH]

Hi All
I have just built a new rig, running 3 SATA HDD. Dirve 1 Has Vista Ultimate
64 installed and is working fine. Drive 2 has docs, pics, files etc and is
working fine. HDD 3 is a 750gb Samsung. It is viewable in my bios and also
when Vista starts up. It can be viewed in Window Explorer and Disk
Management, It has beem formatted and partioned and given drive letters.
However as soon as I try to copy or install anything to this drive it crashes
Vista and the system reboots with the drive missing. When I turn the computer
on and off properly it reappears, but as soon as i try to copy or install to
it the same happen again.

Please help, otherwise I have wasted all this money on a drive i can't use.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

That is a good drive model with Vista x64. I use one with no problems.
Check the cable. If the problem persists can you try the drive in another
computer?