Hello,
I have a PC running Xp media Centre 2005 with a Gigabyte motherboard with 2 SATA hard drives. My old computer gave up a few weeks ago and so I have connected up the old IDE hard drive (standard 80gb Maxtor drive) A week agao I could explore the drive and copy files off onto my media PC. Now I have built a new computer and want to use the old hardrive for this. Obviously when i try to use the old hardrive on the new computer it wont boot into windows as its setup for old motherboard CPu etc. So i tried to copy all the info on my media PC, format old hard drive and start again. However, now when i connect old hard drive to media centre PC if i explore the HDD it just crashed my computer. The screen will freeze for 3 or 4 seconds and then click it restarts the PC. Its only when i try and do anything on the old hard drive that the computer crashes. I have tried like 20 or 20 times with the same result. Is the hard drive damaged? Sometimes i can explore the files for 30 seconds but sometimes only 5 seconds. If i try to run
scan disk thingy in windows it also crashes.
Does anyone have any ideas why? Also i need to get data off this disc before formatting it.
Thanks in advance

Chowhound
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