I just received a new Dell XPS computer and put in a second SATA hard drive
for storage. I installed the 2nd drive and bios picked it and recognized
it. I formatted the drive in disk management with NTFS. Now when I boot the
PC, it takes forever to boot up, about 4 minutes now. I checked the
connections on
the mainboard and it's on SATA1, original drive is on SATA0. Should i have
set up the second drive as a storage drive with the utility CD that came
with the drive? The PC seems to be getting worse and now seems to take for
ever to shut down as well (4 minutes on both startup and shutdown,
progressively worse). Should I set-up the second drive as bootable as well
and still boot off the original drive? Should I re-install and format and let
the OS pick-up the new drive and let it recognize and set-up the way it wants
to? Does it matter if I set it up as a basic or dynamic disk? Not sure what
to try next.

C: drive (windows xp) should be on 0,if thats correct,try entering the BIOS,
it might have 1 as 1st priority drive wheras 0 should be 1st.Most of those
cds
are worthless in xp,they might work in 95,98 or ME.

"Gilly" wrote:

> I just received a new Dell XPS computer and put in a second SATA hard drive
> for storage. I installed the 2nd drive and bios picked it and recognized
> it. I formatted the drive in disk management with NTFS. Now when I boot the
> PC, it takes forever to boot up, about 4 minutes now. I checked the
> connections on
> the mainboard and it's on SATA1, original drive is on SATA0. Should i have
> set up the second drive as a storage drive with the utility CD that came
> with the drive? The PC seems to be getting worse and now seems to take for
> ever to shut down as well (4 minutes on both startup and shutdown,
> progressively worse). Should I set-up the second drive as bootable as well
> and still boot off the original drive? Should I re-install and format and let
> the OS pick-up the new drive and let it recognize and set-up the way it wants
> to? Does it matter if I set it up as a basic or dynamic disk? Not sure what
> to try next.
>
>