New hard drive problems

[Guest]

I installed a second internal hard drive and made it the master and the old
hard drive is now the slave. I can access both drives ok. the problem is
windows xp is on both drives the original and new bigger hard drive. should
windows be on both or only master drive?? I called gateway support, but not
much help there. Seems like computer is running slower now even though I
installed 100 gig hard drive. Should I remove windows from old drive? Will
that mess anything up? Thanks for your help.

DD

 

[Rich Barry]

Did you install WinXP on the second internal hard drive which is now
the master? Or, did it have XP installed on it
already? Machine running slow should have nothing to do with WinXP
being installed on the drive that is now slave.
You could move any important data from the slave drive and then just
format it. Unless you have a dual boot situation
nothing will get messed up by formatting. You might want to check
that DMA is enabled for your Master Drive.

 

[Jonny]

Sounds like you copied, but did not remove the original hard drive during
the first boot after the copy. Why are you making the background
information a mystery and subject to speculation?

 

[Guest]

not sure what you mean by backround information. This is my first time using
this so I may know be familiar with all the terms. I bought a new 100 gig
hard drive and formatted it and installed xp on it. should i remove xp from
original old hard drive now. I now have 2 hard drives and I want to keep the
old one for backing up stuff.

 

[Guest]

I installed xp on second drive which is now master(c. I noticed that when I
create a new folder or try to save a file it always defaults to (d which
was old drive that was origianlly (c. I want C: to be default and use d:
(slave) for backing up stuff. does that make sense?? Thanks.

Den

 

[Jonny]

Background information is what happened prior to the symptoms. Such makes
it easier for the mechanic to fix the car. We have no remote diagnostic
equipment connected to your PC. The only thing we have to go on is what you
tell us.

 

[Guest]

I have no problems with hard drive other than wanting to know if I should
have win xp on both drives. the original drive was named c and now it is the
slave and named d:. the new larger drive is master and named c: . my
desktop defaults to d: and so does it any time it add programs instead of
defaulting to new drive c:. should it be this way? should i take win xp off
slave drive? thanks