XP freezes when doing intensive hard drive i/o

>-----Original Message-----
>I've got an AMD Duron 900mhz, with 512mb ram.
>It has one hard drive which is a maxtor 60gig model

6Y060P0.

>
>After about 15 minutes or defraging my hard drive,

windows xp freezes. No

>keyboard, mouse response, I need to press the reset

button. This behaviour

>happens when saving a large file as well. It appears

that the freezing will

>occure when the hard drive is reading/writing intensly

for a period of time,

>usually 5 to 15 minutes.
>
>XP worked wonderfully on my fujitsy 40gig until it

died. I then bought the

>60gig, installed XP and all the updates. After all the

updates XP was

>freezing randomly until I got a tip and uninstalled the

windows update

>811493. Since then windows has been performing

wonderfully except during

>intense hard drive operations. Please help.
>
>
>.
> This may or not be relevant. I had an 80-gig MAXTOR

drive that did the same thing for a while and then began
freezing up my sytem at will. It corrupted my files and
caused booting problems also. This drive was 2-months
old. After biting the bullet, I took it out and replaced
it with a WESTERN DIGITAL 120-gig. Since then, no
problems. I think MAXTORS ARE JUNK and I have found other
people on the web of the same opinion.