| I installed a 200gb SATA drive on my computer a few months back, and in all honesty I don't remember Windows XP asking me anything about greater than 75GB partitions. But then again, my previous drive was around 80GB, so maybe that's why? Either way, your problem sounds strange, and I doubt enabling support for larger partitions would have much to do with it. Like the above poster said, it may well be a defective drive.
The only other thing I could think of is maybe some problem with your swap file. Try completely disabling all swap files/virtual memory in the control panel, defragging the hell out of both drives, and then recreating a single one on either of the drives (personally, I've got 3 HD's in my computer, I have Windows and most games installed on the large SATA drive, and then storage and virtual memory on the 80gb ATA/100 drive, seems to work great). If that doesn't clear things up, then you may want to reformat and start from scratch to see if that fixes it. |