New hard drive help!

[harrishcris]

Hello,
I bought a new 160gig hard drive and got windows installed and all the usual stuff. But my pc has started running really slow, opening files, opening windows etc. I have an althon xp 1800 +, which i overclocked to 1.73, but it still went very slow... It got so bad that i have now put in my old hard drive. Anyone got any ideas too why it's going slow? Do i need a faster processor?
Many thanks
Chris Harris

My pc spec is:
160gig/40gig (160 gig removed!)
AMD Athlon 1800+
Geforce 4 64MB
512 DDR RAM

 

[DJ-CHRIS]

What is the 160 gig HD?

Also try putting it on a different IDE channel

 

[harrishcris]

Ok,
I will try and put it onto another IDE channel, the hard drive is:
"Seagate ST3160021A Barracuda 160GB 7200rpm 2MB Cache - OEM"
Many thanks
Chris Harris

 

[AND_YOU_ARE]

Make sure the new drive is set as master and the old one set as slave. I would suggest that you put the hard drives on the same ide channle (both on one ribbon), then put your optical drives on the other.

 

[mortified]

Also check.....

That you're using the correct Transfer Mode for your HD (setting in BIOS) and that you have DMA enabled on the drive.