[Keelor]

I recently installed XP after my old hard drive decided to fail (avoiding GXPs from now on...). I was really enjoying the fact that XP less than a minute to boot, after 2000 had started taking almost 5 minutes. Then, when I finally removed the faulty hard drive (which still had information on it that I had managed to recover), my boot time suddenly jumped to 3-5 minutes. When I thought back, I realized that my 2000 boot time had also increased after a change in my hard drive configuration.

I suspect that XP is detecting the changes in my hard drive configuration, but deciding not to make the changes permanent. Anyone have any thoughts on this?

[AndyFair]

Check in the Device Manager - is the old hard drive still listed, but with a question mark or red cross? If so, remove it and see whether that makes a difference.

If not, can't think of what else could be causing the slow down. The only other thing I could suggest is to do a clean install onto the new hard drive without the old drive in the system.


Sorry I couldn't be of any more help,
Rgds
AndyF