Can't view 2nd HD without explorer restarting?

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I've just installed a 2nd drive, Maxtor 200GB.

I'm running XP and used the Computer Management option to set it up.
I can see the size, the fact that its called disk 1 and that its
'healthy' (its also Dynamic and online)

I copied over some folders just by dropping them onto the 'D' drive in
my computer, then deleted them from my C drive.

Every time I try to open up the new disk, it brings up the folder then
shuts it straight down.

I may very well being doing something so obviously stupid.

I can access the drive via software, Word, Excel, etc. I just cannot
browse it?

HELP! Please.

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I get this too! I added a 160gb drive to XP pro machine, but I divided it
into four partitions. Works perfectly, until I try to view one particular
folder on one of the partitions, when Explorer comes up with a "Explorer has
encountered an error and must be re-started" every time. The folder only
contains two DivX files.

Longbow69 said:
I've just installed a 2nd drive, Maxtor 200GB.

I'm running XP and used the Computer Management option to set it up.
I can see the size, the fact that its called disk 1 and that its
'healthy' (its also Dynamic and online)

I copied over some folders just by dropping them onto the 'D' drive in
my computer, then deleted them from my C drive.

Every time I try to open up the new disk, it brings up the folder then
shuts it straight down.

I may very well being doing something so obviously stupid.

I can access the drive via software, Word, Excel, etc. I just cannot
browse it?

HELP! Please.

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Do you dudes have SP1 installed and a BIOS supporting 48 bit LBA addressing?
Possibly unrelated, but disks > 128 are causing a lot of headaches ...
 
Yes BIOS supports LBA-48 so I am not needing any software to force Windows
to see 160gb.
Using XP Pro with SP1 so did not need to do anything to get windows to see
160gb.
I also installed the MS hotfix to prevent corruption of large drive when
using sleep or hibernate.
I can't even delete the files in the problem folder as I can't browse to
them! Guess I'll have to del the whole folder or do it from a command
line...
 
UPDATE
Turns out both files in the folder that was causing explorer to crash are
corrupted - they were fine, so now I am worried that something is seriously
amiss - maybe I should uninstall the hotfix that is supposed to prevent
corruption?
What I did was from a command line copied one of the files to my C: drive.
but when I went into the folder where the file was this time Explorer did
not crash, but Explorer started to use 100% CPU and stayed like that. So I
tried loading the file into VirtualDub, and it right away started
'Reconstructing missing index block (agressive mode)' so I may get the film
back when it's finished.
What concerns me is that, in years of PC use, I have never had corrupted
files before...
P.S. have scanned for viruses etc
So Longbow69 perhaps one of the files you copied to your new drive is
corrupted too...
 
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