locks up while pasting data from Access
 

I am using a Pentium 4 machine (1.8GHz processor) with 1GB in RAM, using
Windows 2000 with Office XP. I am doing queries in Access and then Trying to
paste the results into Excel. The number of records are in the 25k to 100k
range. I am not sure of the limit of Access or Excel, but I don't think I am
bumping up to the ceiling for either. Everytime I try to copy and paste the
data into Excel, my machine locks up.
I don't think it is a hardware issue, but rather a software issue. Any ideas?