too slow too swappin

[furiochi]

I 've a new pc (E6700 , asus p5b, 3 gigs mem, x1650video, not a good
gamer, LG DVD) on which I installed my two old HD(as a matter of fact
they were on old pc but are two 150 giga sata one almost completely
empty another 50%) I asked to install as they were as I didn't want
to lose my data, or better, rememberings.
Now the problem: the cpu is swift, very swift, but bootin' (XP of
course...:-[) takes three minutes, some programs (e.g. Word requires
minutes to start, others go in a lightning: as it' not swapping comes
dumb question :Why? I know that with a new pc you should reinstall
your OS from scratch, but I didn't want to lose my data, and above all
programs (I backupped all data). And what I really don't understand is
why all this slowlyness with a hd half full and another empty.Any
hint?
I thanks for any advice and excuse for my ignorance.

 

[DL]

Its not entirely clear from your post as to whether the old drive you
installed contained your win o/s and if so you are using this as your boot
drive?
If indeed you are using the old o/s you need to undertake a repair install
of win, possibly using F6 in the process to install sata/raid drivers from
floppy. Then install the mobo chipset and other drivers NOT from winupdate.

 

[Rock]

I 've a new pc (E6700 , asus p5b, 3 gigs mem, x1650video, not a good
gamer, LG DVD) on which I installed my two old HD(as a matter of fact
they were on old pc but are two 150 giga sata one almost completely
empty another 50%) I asked to install as they were as I didn't want
to lose my data, or better, rememberings.
Now the problem: the cpu is swift, very swift, but bootin' (XP of
course...:-[) takes three minutes, some programs (e.g. Word requires
minutes to start, others go in a lightning: as it' not swapping comes
dumb question :Why? I know that with a new pc you should reinstall
your OS from scratch, but I didn't want to lose my data, and above all
programs (I backupped all data). And what I really don't understand is
why all this slowlyness with a hd half full and another empty.Any
hint?
I thanks for any advice and excuse for my ignorance.

You can't just move a drive with Windows XP installed from one computer to
another, and have it work well The installation is tailored to the hardware
in the system. New hardware = mismatch in the installation. At the minimum
you'll need to do a repair install of the Windows XP installation. If that
doesn't straighten things out, then it's a clean install.

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html