I need help with my second harddrive

[fiddlejunior]

I recently installed a second hard drive to my pc, i dont know what i did wrong and when i go to my computer it takes like a minute to load, i need help to see what i did wrong

[TimW]

Did you change jumpers (on the back of the drives there are posts for the jumpers and usually a diagram on the top showing the positions) ....master (your hard drive with the operating system ....) goes on the last connection on the ide cable ..the slave drive goes on the middle connector .....on some computers you need to jumper both as "cable select" ....but would do master/slave first.

[fiddlejunior]

Yeah i put those little white things the way the pic show me, i feel like destroying my computer im mad and its going slow i wish i could reinstall windows again but i dont have the discs

[TimW]

Then need more info .....is this the only problem ...slow having "my computer" find the stuff (flashlight searching for awhile)?

[fiddlejunior]

Yeah that flashlight and some other problems, like my keyboard has a volume button and when i turn it down the little bars go down and now it wont show up

[TimW]

There is a fix for the slow "my computer" at http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm
but it's late and I can't seem to find it ....(long list) ....

[fiddlejunior]

What do i look for? Do you have messenger so that i can contact you quicker?

[TimW]

Found it:
You might try #157 on the right side, Prevent Delay Opening My Computer/Explorer http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm

[fiddlejunior]

Oh ok but what can i do with all the registry entries that got messed up?

[fiddlejunior]

I really dont know how to do that registry thing

[TimW]

After downloading the file ...just double click it and let it run ....as to cleaning up the rest:
CCleaner:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/CCleaner_d4191.html
Set a restore point ...then
Run the cleaner ...
and then the Issues (you will be prompted to save a backup ...do so>)