I just GOT a new 200 GB SATA Maxtor HD for Christmas (don't laugh). I already have a 120 GB ATA thats nearly full and jumpered as single (no jumpers). After plugging in the drive ACCORDING to its instructions and starting up Windows, I activated the drive and formatted it, assigned a label, the whole deal... but when I try to transfer some of my larger video files, it just freezes the entire computer, including the mouse. Before that happens, I can SEE it and view its properties; I even used the XP error-checking utility on it, which came up normal. Understand, I can transfer a small amount of data to it (the actual amount varies each time).

I though it might be overheating, so I separated it from the rest of the computer, but the problem persists.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
    -ShaunIm no professional but here are my thoughts

1rst- Did you format to NTFS (reccomended)?
Fat32(the other type) formats can't handle any files over 4 gigs.

2nd- Did you replace the jumper on the original hardrive in the master configuration and the second in the slave configuration, and the same with the ribbon cable?

3nd- Does bios recognize the drive properly, operating system(boot) should be drive 0 and the slave drive should be 1

Hopefully you just formatted it to FAT32 thats an easily FIXED problem.


The new drive was formatted to NTFS, but it was also SATA. Do you need the master/slave jumper settings between an SATA and ATA hard drive?Oh yea, and the bios recognizes the drive at its full capacity, but as SATA MASTER0, and the other is Secondary Master0.