Slowdowns and errors

[maliciant]

I have 2 160gb Maxtor Diamond max drives setup as a raid 0. The problem started (I think) when I tried to unzip jdk 1.5 documentation, it took an extremely long time for explorer to move the file from temp folder to the download folder I saved to after it finished the download, then unzipping also took a long time and failed part way through it. So I decide to run scandisk just to be safe... my computer is noticably slower when anything involving the hard drive is going on. Anyway, running scandisk seems to lock up on testing the unused portion of the drive (at 0%). I'm not real familiar with RAID or windows XP (pro), am I dealing with a bad drive or could something else be the problem? Is there any kind of program I can download to test the drive since scandisk seems to be choking on something?

This is a fairly new machine, I haven't done much other than transfer my old files over to it... about 9 gig of 320 used.

 

[maliciant]

Oh yeah, probably more important, is there a way to determine which hard drive is bad, right now I'm thinking I'm going to have to set them up as a non-raid drive, and install xp again and see if scandisk can give me any clues.