Rebooting on 'new file' or 'save' to new HDD...

[distendo]

I've just fitted two Hitachi 7K250 120Gb HDDs onto IDE3 and IDE4, formatted NTFS (for video capture and mpeg output, not set up as RAID array).

I'm capturing ok, but if I try something simple like creating a new notepad text document, or creating a folder, or copying a file there, the system reboots. I seem to need to set up a scandisk on reboot before it'll accept such a move.

Suggestions or ideas very welcome!

[versello]

You could try booting to the recovery console and chkdsk it... but I'm a little skeptical if that will fix your problems because it sounds like you have a hardware issue here.

[distendo]

Okeydokey versello
Thanks for the reply.
Agreed, 'h/w issue' likely, but where what why etc... :-/
I see more stumbling around in the dark ahead...!

[distendo]

Sorted (I think).

After another episode, which resulted in not even being able to use CHKDSK (blue screen error 50), I reformatted them to fat32 using W98 (dual-boot setup here), whereupon they behaved faultlessly.

I realised my probable mistake was to use Partition Magic for the first format (and to resize the clusters to 64k).

I decided to reformat to NTFS using XP (windows explorer rt click), which took a whole lot longer, and which seems to have done the trick. I then used PM to resize the clusters.

So far so good...

[kryyst]

Partition Magic can cause nightmares....horrible, horrible nightmares. When it works it's good but I've seen more people trash hdd's with it then almost any other software.

[distendo]

Well, apart from this weirdness (I mean, why does it pretend it's formatted when it's just skittered about a bit?), I've found PM just plain excellent. Never any problem - and I've partitioned drives like I was chopping carrots...

What just trashed my other HD (an IBM 75GXP so I guess some people will be nodding their heads in a 'not surprised' manner) was using Pinnacle Studio to turn a 13Gb AVI into a DVD-able MPEG on that one HD: that's a lot of head-dancing, and I think it just thrashed itself to death. So from now on it's translating from one HD onto another for me...