Hi, I have just brought a new hard disk, because i have filled my other 1 up, they are both maxter, and i am having problems with them. I used to be able to run windows fine, (WIN XP), but now i am having problems with new hard disk, what i want to to is install XP on 40gig hard drive and have all my other stuff onto my 120gig hjard drive, so if windows crashed i have everything on other hard drive, at the moment i have installed xp on 40 gig hard drive, nmo problems, but when i try and boot windows, it takes around 30 seconds to boot, which is way to long cause it used to boot in 10 seconds, i then unplugged the 120gig hard drive, that has nothing on it yet, but has been formated and windows reconise it, so, i unplugged it, and it booted up in 10 seconds, it seems that when i have it plugged in it takes longer. why is this, is windows searching in it, i just want it to use 40 gig to boot up. my setup for the hard drive are, 40 gig (With XP) - primary master 120 gig (Blank for now) - primary slave and cdroms ar secondry, to cdrom dirves. is that the way it should be plugged in, i just want it to boot up in 10 seconds as it did before, so what am i doing wrong, or is this normal. Note: i have tryed configuring in bios with no luck. please help me, thanks very much.
