Western digital 1 terabye H/D

[koiman2]

I loaded xp pro on new 1 terabye h/d and now computor takes forever to load ANY program or website. Also my brother with same h/d on entirely different pc has same problem. Is there some special way of loading these new h/d's ?

 I have intel 3.20ghz cpu with 2.gb ram . Pc ran very fast before...Need some info please.

[patio]

Did you remember to re-install ALL drivers for that machine ? ?
Chepset drivers go 1st...

[Geek-9pm]

Some more detail please.
Which model of Western Digital?
Where did you buy it?
When did you buy it?
What kind of warranty?
Was it described as Retail, OEM, Used or Refurbished?
Vista the Western Digital website to fine a suitable diagnostic program.
http://support.wdc.com/?wdc_lang=en

[koiman2]

This was purchased from Tiger Direct in April as retail and I installed in my pc.  My brother who lives in Georgetown Ont. also installed same model. There must be a bios setting that is needed to allow these new h/d's to operate on a 32bit system that i missed or dont know about.

[patio]

The issue is probably not being caused by the HDD...

[Geek-9pm]

The issue is probably not being caused by the HDD...

I respectful disagree, but with with caveats.

A less serious issue has been found in certain revisions of Western Digital's popular Green Power series. In fact, the issue is less a bug than a feature that doesn't play well with certain computing environments. Nevertheless, the problem has developed a massive discussion thread in the SPCR forums, so we feel compelled to speak about what we know of the issue.

The problem is this: The Green Power is designed and marketed as a "green" drive, where power efficiency is the primary engineering concern. As part of this concern, the drive is designed to unload the read/write heads after approximately 8 seconds of inactivity. That in itself is not a bad thing — in fact, it's a common attribute of notebook drives, which have different reasons for saving power (battery life). However, certain software (notably, SpeedFan and some distributions of Linux) can cause issues because they access the drive regularly every 10 seconds or every minute or so. This causes a cycle of rapid loading and unloading that is stressful to the drive — far more stressful than "ordinary" use in which the drive is either working steadily or completely idle.
http://www.silentpcreview.com/Terabyte_Drive_Fix

Without knowing which model you have, I can not say this would apply. Read the link for more information. That post is over a year old, but the drive might have been on the shelf for some time.