Cause of slave drive to XP performance?

[debbie]

I installed a slave drive on my Dell XP 4400 machine and
all seemed fine. Performance slowly but surely seemed to
degrade over the last couple of months, to the point that
now, if the device is enabled (if disabled, all works fine
and fast), it takes Windows XP upwards of 10-15 minutes to
boot and although the machine sees the drive and the
device is 'functioning properly' as per device manager, I
get an error when attempting to now see the drive contents
(it used to work). Any ideas on what the issue could be?

[Lance Hill]

Something very similar happened to me with my older D: drive. Take a look at
the Event logs and see if there are any errors produced by 'disk'. My logs
listed disk errors and eventually told me the disk was about to fail so
please back up your data.

This disk was also making some clunking noises, so I backed up and disabled
the drive until I could get a new one. As soon as I disabled the drive, my
boot up times went from 4 minutes down to less than a minute. This was my
one and only 'no muss, no fuss' disk failure.

Open the Control Panel, then Administrative Tools, click on Event Viewer and
look around.

Lance
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"debbie" > wrote...
> I installed a slave drive on my Dell XP 4400 machine and
> all seemed fine. Performance slowly but surely seemed to
> degrade over the last couple of months, to the point that
> now, if the device is enabled (if disabled, all works fine
> and fast), it takes Windows XP upwards of 10-15 minutes to
> boot and although the machine sees the drive and the
> device is 'functioning properly' as per device manager, I
> get an error when attempting to now see the drive contents
> (it used to work). Any ideas on what the issue could be?