External Hard Drive cuts out

Hi there,
I removed my 120 G internal hardrive (Maxtor) from my pc, put it in an external box and plugged it into my intel macbook via USB. It appears to have formatted correctly in utilties and I can transfer small files (approx 100 MB) fine but when I attempt to transfer larger files the drive shuts down and switches off, it disappears from finder, I get an error code 36 and a warning about impropper removal of drives.
What's going on?

Thanks
The box only supports USB. Also ,I'm not convinced the formatting was completing as I tried various format options in utilities and the drive was shutting down during each format.
Firewire on a caddy was much more difficult to get hold of for use with sata drives. I tried my local retailers with no joy. Hence USB option.

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