Occasional Freezes

[ronnroz]

I recently bought a new HDD 300 GB Maxtor. Installed it and installed winxp professional.. I use some graphics programs, e.g. Corel Draw, Photoshop, etc. Everything is fine, but every now and then, it will stop responding. I can click away on all the icons, but it won't do anything.. and then maybe after a minute or 2 it will start responding. There's no particular pattern to it, nor there is any particular program responsible. I have 1GB RAM, there's another physical HDD present (my old HDD), one CD-RW and one DVD-RW. It's Pentium 3.8 GHz clone pc. any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks.

[patio]

I would run Maxtor's drive diagnostics on that HDD...available at their site.

And post problems only once someone is usually along shortly...

[soybean]

A double post going here; he also posted at http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1163616465/1#1

[ronnroz]

YES, guilty as charged, but there's a reason for this. You see I am not sure whether this problem is hardware related or OS related so I posted in both the forums. Sorry if it caused any harm! Thanks for the replies.

[soybean]

In the future, just take your best guess as to which section best fits your question and go ahead and post there.  If a moderator feels it belongs in another section, they can move it.