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I recently added:

1 x Maxtor Diamondmax 22 500GB SATA-II 32MB

To the following system:

Win XP Pro SP2
MSI K8N Neo4 SLI Platinum (model MS-7100) / BIOS - 3.0 - / PCB version - 3.00 -
64-bit Athlon 3200+
2x1024 Mb Corsair Value RAM PC3200
Leadtek 128Mb 6600GT PCIe Graphics Card / Integrated Creative 24-bit SoundBlaster Sound Card
Silicon Image SiI 0680 Ultra-133 Medley ATA Raid Controller
2 x Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6B160M0 160GB SATA-150 8MB = RAID 1
1 x Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 6B200PO 200GB ATA-133 8MB
1 x WD Caviar WD1600BB 160GB ATA-100 2MB
1 x WD Caviar WD1200AB 120GB ATA-100 2MB
DVDRW : LG-GSA-4167B / CD-RW : Asus CRW-5224A / 1.44MB 3.5"
CNET CWP-854 rt61 wireless-G PCI adapter
Thermaltake Toughpower 700W (w105) / +3.3V 30A = +5V 28A = 4x +12V 18A

I formatted the new drive to have three partitions. One of 4 GB for Windows page file, one of 2 GB for Linux swap partition and the rest a big ext3 partition. All my other partitions are ext3 apart from the Windows one and I use ext2fs IFS in order to access them, but for some reason, Windows would not accept the new big partition (issue described here: http://forums.opensuse.org/looking-s...ml#post1836041). I set my Windows page file on the NTFS partition and ever since, had a few different problems:
1) frequent hangs where music would play the same blip over and over and then the computer would snap out of it after 30-60 seconds
2) weird crashes where I could flip between programs with Alt + Tab but could not get the start menu to come up and could not get task manager with Ctrl Alt Delete
3) complete crashes where the computer would stop responding completely
3) problems booting up, where the Windows loading screen would transition to a blank screen and stay there

I've tried multiple things before deciding it was the page file and swapped the page file back to the WinXP partition. So far so good. Is this indicant of a defective HD? It's been in for almost a week.