Hard Drive problem

[Xenarious]

I have just formatted and done a fresh install of Windows on my main 120gb SATA drive. When I load up everything boots up fine and very quickly on the windows loading screen.
Though, when I connect my IDE Western Digital 80gb drive it takes very long to load up whilst on the Windows booting screen, about 40 seconds to a minute. The drive has data on it that was backed up before I formatted and before was just used as a storage drive.
I have not installed the IDE drivers for my motherboard because it has conflicts with SATA drives. My motherboard is DFI Lanparty UT 250gb nforce3.

Any ideas whats going wrong?

Thanks

 

[dBTelos]

Is the IDE drive formatted? If not I would, then defrag it.

 

[alzan]

You might run the WD diags on your drive to make sure there's nothing wrong with it. It's been my experience that drives with problems can cause slow boot ups/no boot, even if they're not the OS drive. If there are no problems found, you could get an IDE adapter card to attach the storage drive to your system.

alzan