T61p +Momentus 500GB as boot disk = BSOD

I replaced the Hitachi 160GB boot disk with a 500GB 5400rpm Momentus - now, after about 15-30 minutes, the computer (runing XP) will BlueScreen, typically with one of two errors
"A process of thread crucial to system operation has unexpectedly exited or been terminated.
* STOP: 0x000000F4 (0x00000003,0x86BC2B48,0x80605688)
"KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR"
STOP: 0x0000007a (E67333EC,0xC000000E,0xBF8EB596,0x3CF4E860)
reported in various sys file locations such as win32k.sys
Any suggestions how to proceed?
Message Edited by wiredathome on 08-09-2009 04:20 PM

I get the same error on a T61p and the Seagate 500GB (running Vista x64). Seems to be a Seagate problem. The drive seems to become unresponsive and does not recover (and eventually causes the BSOD). No fix that I could find. So, I will probably swap it out with a WD Scorpio at some point if a proper firmware update is not issued.
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