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nitrous9200 · 06-18-2008, 11:42 AM

Ever since SP3 was released, I have problems with external drives (copying files to or from them, deleting files from them, etc.). Whenever I do one of those tasks, the computer will inevitably freeze during the operation. This didn't happen in SP2, but did happen while using one of the SP3 betas. I'm pretty sure this is an SP3 problem because SP2 worked fine, and I slipstreamed SP3 into an install disc and performed a fresh install - same thing happens. Booting of an Ubuntu Live CD allows me to copy files to my heart's desire. Anyone else have this problem or know what to do? All drivers are the latest, I also tried uninstalling the NVIDIA IDE driver which was known to cause problems, still didn't solve it.

06-18-2008, 11:42 AM	#1 (permalink)
nitrous9200 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3 OS: XP Home SP3	Freeze when working with external drives Ever since SP3 was released, I have problems with external drives (copying files to or from them, deleting files from them, etc.). Whenever I do one of those tasks, the computer will inevitably freeze during the operation. This didn't happen in SP2, but did happen while using one of the SP3 betas. I'm pretty sure this is an SP3 problem because SP2 worked fine, and I slipstreamed SP3 into an install disc and performed a fresh install - same thing happens. Booting of an Ubuntu Live CD allows me to copy files to my heart's desire. Anyone else have this problem or know what to do? All drivers are the latest, I also tried uninstalling the NVIDIA IDE driver which was known to cause problems, still didn't solve it.