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WinXP slows way down when adding a second hard drive.
LockedI am having problems with my Xp box. I have tried to add a second hard drive to a system. The problem is that when I do this XP slows down. This happens throughout the OP system from booting to calling up apps to slowing way down when using Win Explorer or my computer. I Have a main drive of 60G on IDE0-Master I also have a DVD DRive and a DVD Burner. I have tried several brands and sizes ranging from 40g-100g and I have tried having it on ide0-slave and both dvds on IDE1 I have tried DVD on IDE0-Slave, HD IDE1 either master or slave and the DVD drive as the other still the same. I have set master/slave and also used cable select. same thing. What is going on here?
I had this happen once with the same type of setup but had 2 scsi drives and an idecd-drive and IDE cd-burner and I finally gave up and switched to a large single IDE Drive thinking it was something with the scsi’s This setup had worked on a win98 machine with no problem. I have a setup where I keep a bunch of tech files on a master HD and I have setup a removeable HD Bay(Not HotSwap)when I have alot of files or a large file that I want to copy quickly I pull drive and inserted it as second drive. or when I am not doing that I keep my mp3 collection on a drive that I insert or I have a few drives with things that I don’t need often and I will swap them in and out as needed. Works better than filing CDs and I can keep different versions or service packs together in one directory incase I need to use an earlier version. Now that I have a spare XP box I am trying to move everything off of the 98 box which has been good to me. what is going on here with the slowdown after a second drive.