Hard Drive disk checking -blue screen at start up

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Ian

Hello,
I've recently added a 30Gb HD as a slave drive to my
system. I'm using Windows XP SP1. It was taken from a
system that had Win98 SE on it. It had about 1% of the
space used with about 3 files.
It worked fine until I copied over several types of media
file from my Master drive (to free up space there). Most
of the files were video clips of Windows Media, MPeg or
AVI and a few QuickTime.

Anyway now when I boot up it goes into disk checking for
drive D (the slave) and does all the checking and
repairing of bad clusters for some of the files copied
across(which had not happened before when they were on
Master drive). Then it starts checking for spare space on
disk and hangs at 0%..no matter how long I leave it for.
Currently every time I boot up I'm having to sit and wait
for the disk checker then press a key to skip.

How can I avoid/repair/stop this happening???
Reformat the Slave??
Both Master and Slave currently consist of one partition
each of type FAT32.

Thanks..
Ian.
 
Hello

Well if all was working fine before you installed the 30GB
you can pretty much say that the new drive is causing you
some problems.
1. Remove the 30GB HD and if your pc runs fine with
no errors you know it's the drive.
2. I would reformat the 30gb hd as ntfs and try copying files
over and see what happens, give that a go

Al
 
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