Sounds like you copied, but did not remove the original hard drive during
the first boot after the copy. Why are you making the background
information a mystery and subject to speculation?

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Jonny
"dd" <dd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I installed a second internal hard drive and made it the master and the
old
> hard drive is now the slave. I can access both drives ok. the problem is
> windows xp is on both drives the original and new bigger hard drive.
should
> windows be on both or only master drive?? I called gateway support, but
not
> much help there. Seems like computer is running slower now even though I
> installed 100 gig hard drive. Should I remove windows from old drive?
Will
> that mess anything up? Thanks for your help.
>
> DD