XP and new FAT32 hdd - this one has me stuck!

[Guest_imported]

My system - 1200mhz Athlon, 192, multi monitors on geforce 2 and tnt2, sb live se edition, primary ide: 20gb hdd, 10gb hdd; secondary ide: 40gb hdd, 10gb hdd, all on fat32 filesystems running xp pro.
My problem - this is a strange one - I just formatted my new 40 gig hdd to the fat32 filesystem with the correct primary dos partition. I've done this numerous times before for Win 98, and it always worked fine, although for some strange reason my 40 gig is causing problems in xp - as soon as I attempt to copy files (or a minute or so after copying) to the new drive, xp will either blue screen, or reset the computer without warning. The files that did actually copy before reset remain on the new hard drive, and the system is stable as long as I don't write to it. Could this be because the hard drive was partitioned incorrectly? I don't think so, my other 10 gigs were formatted using windows 98 and they work fine with xp, although they were present when I initially upgraded from 98 to xp.

Any suggestions, hints, solutions? I'm out of ideas, so any offers would be greatly appreciated =) Just as a side note, I only have about 250 megs worth of space left on my c drive, could this be affecting the stability of xp when copying to the 40 gig?

- Tristan.

 

[tlcscousin]

Did you go into admin tools disk management and initialize the disk? Having it formatted and in place doesn't help until you tell XP do initialize it.
If you dont know how to get to admin tools a quick way is to right click my computer and seelect manage.

 

[Guest_imported]

Yep! After hours of stuffing around, I finally narrowed the problem down to my sound card. The system works fine when the sound card isn't present, but when it is, any copying to the 40 gig hard drive will result in a reset.

I also have an onboard soundcard, disabled in the hardware profiles - could this be causing complications?