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Just installed a new HDD, duel booting Vista/7 - [SLOW]
I should probably start off with my basic specs.
Intel Core i7 920
6Gb's DDR3
640 HDD
Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit.
Alright, I just bought a 1.5 TB SATA HDD because I thought to myself in the long run it'll be worth it [I've used about 300Gb's on the 640 drive, which is the drive that came stock with the Dell system I bought]. I installed it just fine, and switched the SATA cables to run the 1.5TB drive in the 0 slot, and bumped the 640 drive down to the 1 slot. Booted up the 1.5 and loaded Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, and that's all I've done so far - so I've been hitting F12 to boot up to the Vista drive over the past week. Well, it's significantly slower now - overall performance on the 640 drive with Vista just seems sluggish compared to how it used to run [it used to run perfectly smooth]. Quick example: Under the 'Pictures' folder I probably have 1.5Gb's full of pictures - now before it would take about a second for a picture to pull up [since there was so many in that specific folder] [any other folder with just a few hundred pictures or so would pull up instantly], now pulling up a picture in that same big Pictures folder it takes about 5 seconds minimum to pull up. So I'm wondering if I did anything wrong and why this drive is running much slower than it used to be. In desperation for help, thanks in advance.