not sure what you mean by backround information. This is my first time using
this so I may know be familiar with all the terms. I bought a new 100 gig
hard drive and formatted it and installed xp on it. should i remove xp from
original old hard drive now. I now have 2 hard drives and I want to keep the
old one for backing up stuff.

"Jonny" wrote:

> 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?
>
> --
> Jonny
> "dd" <dd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8269F099-30D4-469E-8854-EB996CFDB763@microsoft.com...
> > 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
>
>
>