Jimmy2Drags

I'm having very similar problems to these guys. I have a 500gb maxtor basic, that causes nothing but problems. when i first got it, I allocated it as the B drive. Since purchasing this hard drive, my PC keeps restarting, getting to the loading screen & then nothing....it just restarts again. when it does fancy restarting, it will either, not recognise my external hard drive or allocate it to drive F, and say it needs formating....sometimes my DVD drive is 'invisable' too. Now normally I'd just do a reinstall, but I'm worried that if i do, when it has to restart it'll do the same thing again. I've tried loading it with nothing attached (no usb devices, printer, ext hard drives etc) but to no avail. I have put up with this for the last 4 months, but it is becoming an all to regular occourance (every night, at least once). I have 2 internal hard drives, both 250gb & another 250gb external drive that cause no problems.

Any suggestions....before i kick seven shades of poo out of it....would be welcome

Thanks

Jimmy

PS....Is it worth installing XP instead or will i possibly have the same problems too?