Quick drive-changing question.. .slight problem

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Bought a new Seagate 120gb drive today to replace my older 40gb drive.
Installed the copy software that came with it, plugged it all in yeehaw whoopety doo... let it do its thing. After about an hour it finished copying, a shut it down, pulled and switched the jumpers, fired it back up, booted fine.
Shut it down, unhooked old drive, rebooted to check again. Fine.
So, I started messing around with some files I wanted to get rid of, and its telling me the recycle bin is corrupted and does not work. Also, I opened a project in Sonar 3 that normally runs at 2.9 ms latency (although poorly, but it runs never the less) and it kepy locking up. I set it up to 40 ms and it still didnt work, then to 75, which should run damned near ANY project, and it still locked up and gave me some very ugly distortion and squeals through the monitors. Booted it several times, same thing. Unhooked it, set the jumpers back on the old drive, and all is well and normal with it.
Think something screwed up in the transition or a bad drive? Should I try it again? Whats the procedure here, what should I do?
Paul
 
Anyone?
I guess I'll try to reformat the new drive again, and start over. Sound like the plan?
 
With new drives, I almost always pretty much reconcile myself to the fact that I'll need to just reinstall windows (if the drive I bought is going to be the system drive of course). Then you could just copy over the files from your old drive on to the new one, but you will have to reinstall programs. It's cumbersome, but it's the sure fired way that you will have a clean install w/ a new drive. If you have problems after that, then it might be the drive, but the issues sound windows based to me.
 
Really? Never wants to copy over quite right eh?
Hmmmm. Well, its not all THAT bad I guess. This way I could start with a fresh copy of Sonar 5, since I still have 2 and 3 bogging my HD down as well.
Problem is, I dont know where my windows disk is at, and I'm not sure that I have that huge list of numbers written down to re-install it without having to call them again. I did write them down though.
Guess I'll go look for that crap. Sucks.
 
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