Windows Explorer locks when accessing my D & E drive

> Hi,
> I'm running WinXP with 2 120gig HDD, configured as "Basic"
> drives, Drive 0 is partitioned into a boot C-drive and a
> data D-drive; Drive 1 is a single partition data drive.
>
> This is a new install, and I used windows explorer (I favor
> WE's UI) to access these drives. C-drive opens fine.
> D and E-drive opened fine until the following occured:
>
> This PC was given to a new user. I wanted to xfer data
> folders from her 2 old IDE drives onto the new ones in the
> XP machine
>
> Right off the bat, the XP machine had problems even seeing
> these drives when I connected them one at a time to the
> secondary IDE channel of the machine (Dell 340) These
> drives were originaly installed in her machine on a Promise
> Ultra 133 x2 IDE controller and configured as "simple
> dynamic" drives (why I dont know, since they were both
> single partition drives)
>
> I got one drive to eventually "import" into WinXP using the
> control panel disk manager, and copied the files to the new
> machine using My Computer. The second drive (same model)
> didnt offer an import option, it just showed up and I
> copied it too with My computer (it took a couple reboots
> and luck before it showed up in My Computer even). WE could
> not "see" either of them during the transfers. Neither of
> the "old" drives were kept in the new machine.
>
> After the file copy, WE would not open either D or E drive,
> it just hung up with the hourglass. You have to click the X
> box and then it presents the "end now, program not
> responding" window. C-drive still opens fine with WE. Only
> My Computer will open D or E.
>
> Anyone know whats up with WinXP's WE in this case?
> If there is a fix or even a logical reason why this is
> happening, other than going back to W2k? Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
> Thanks!
> Mike
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