[supertoy]

I bought a new HP desktop about two weeks back. It came with a 640g hard drive but I needed my 500g from the old computer as well. Both are Western Digital SATA 3G 7200 rpm drives. The computer seems to run fine, until I start using the 500 drive. It will work fine for about 30 minutes, then everything will either come to a crawl, or just freeze. The only thing I have found to cure the freeze is to close explorer, and start it up again. After I do that, the drive (and most other things) is pretty much useless until I restart the computer. I’ve even tried to move everything from the 500 to the 640 while I try and trouble shoot, but even that is impossible.

And just a though, the 640 (the Windows installed drive) drive is plugged into SATA1 on the MB, DVD drive on SATA2, and 500 on SATA3. Any chance that makes a difference?

Side question: While I try and trouble shoot this, is disabling the drive through the device manager just as good as physically disconnecting the SATA and power from the drive so that Windows will not see it? Thus preventing it from mucking up the whole operation.


CPU: 2.2GHz AMD Phenom™ X4
RAM: 6GB PC2-6400 DDR2 SDRAM
Graphic: NVIDIA GeForce 9100
HDD: Western Digital 640GB SATA 3G 7200 rpm
HDD: Western Digital 500GB SATA 3G 7200 rpm
MB: Pegatron M2N78-LA
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit

[Rich-M]

No shutting it down in Device Manager is not the same thing. Have you tried running checkdisk on it? Tried a different cable.
I am not sure why I say this but I believe the hard drives should be in order followed by the dvd-rw.

[supertoy]

No, I haven't tried any of those options yet. But I will asap. Thanks much!