Hard drive problems

[mindrot]

My wife's PC has been crashing (blue screening) when she tries to access anything on a specific drive (not the boot drive).

I did a Dos CHKDSK and it came up fine as I thought there might be messed up sectors or something causing the problem. I went on to try HD Tune Pro (trial) which resulted in the PC blue screening again when I tried to test the problem drive.

What's strange (well to me as I'm no expert) is that I managed to copy all the files and directory's off the drive in Safe Mode (with Command prompt) using "xcopy" without any trouble.

I even went as far as to try a different IDE cable on the drive.

What could be causing this? Any help would be great.

Thanks

 

[mindrot]

Thanks ChrisLX200... I'll probably look in to that tonight when I get home.

It's kind of strange as this only started happening recently. We also did a registry clean up (I think with Registry Patrol or something - name escapes me) on her PC a couple of weeks ago due to some stability issues, which it solved. Would that possibly have mucked things up?

Thnkas for your time.