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Tweave · 06-19-2008, 12:44 PM

Installed WD5000AAKS (3rd SATA drive) in Dell computer running Windows XP Pro. BIOS did not autodetect drive, so entered Setup and enabled drive manually. Then Windows did not autodetect drive, so entered Disk Management, chose drive letter, entered volume name, chose NTFS, and reformatted the entire 500GB. Much later, there was an error during formatting, and I rebooted.
Now the drive icon shows up in My Computer. But - any activity with it (mouse click, Disk Management Status, etc) IMMEDIATELY crashes Windows. The only way I can prevent Windows from crashing is to disable the drive in BIOS Setup. What should I do?

06-19-2008, 12:44 PM	#1 (permalink)
Tweave Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 3 OS: Windows XP Pro / SP3	[SOLVED] New SATA Drive crashes Windows XP Installed WD5000AAKS (3rd SATA drive) in Dell computer running Windows XP Pro. BIOS did not autodetect drive, so entered Setup and enabled drive manually. Then Windows did not autodetect drive, so entered Disk Management, chose drive letter, entered volume name, chose NTFS, and reformatted the entire 500GB. Much later, there was an error during formatting, and I rebooted. Now the drive icon shows up in My Computer. But - any activity with it (mouse click, Disk Management Status, etc) IMMEDIATELY crashes Windows. The only way I can prevent Windows from crashing is to disable the drive in BIOS Setup. What should I do?