If you're experiencing general slowness with your hard drive (done a speed test?), I wonder if you've tried moving it onto its own IDE channel?
Used to be the case years ago that sharing an IDE channel between a hard drive and an optical drive could cause problems.... don't know if that's still an issue today but I always put hard drives and opticals on separate channels, out of habit if nothing else.
Used to be the case years ago that sharing an IDE channel between a hard drive and an optical drive could cause problems.... don't know if that's still an issue today but I always put hard drives and opticals on separate channels, out of habit if nothing else.