Hard drive freezes on clicking

[Imtiyaz]

Hi,
I have a brand new hard drive attached my mobo. I am running windows Xp on this system. When i boot my computer it starts fine. But when i click on my computer or my hard drive i.e. D:/, computer freezes. I have no idea whats happening. Can anyone help?

Thank you in advance.

[Devasis]

Your computer is infected with viruses or adware. Install some good antivirus and run system scan to remove such infections. Also run anti-adware application for more safety. There are plenty of free antivirus programs available on the internet.

[Solomon]

Try this:

• Right click on D:
• Click on Properties
• Then Go to Tools
• Click on Check Now under Error Checking
• select the both the check boxes
• Then click Start
• Confirm to scan at next startup

[MrChris-]

It is possible that your hard drive is faulty. Check the hard drive on another cabinet or you can get or borrow another drive and check it on the same. Most of the cases it is hard drive issue. This might be a mechanical problem and you need hardware experts help to fix it.