i nlited xp again and installed it on 2 partitions of my comp. on my main partition the speed is fine but on the backup partition there is a problem. i have disabled a bunch of services so that could be the problem but i dont know which one is the right one. well the problem is that when i start the comp and boot to my backup part, i get 2 bars at the windows boot screen, then it takes forever for the login box to pop up, like 50secs. also if i logoff, it takes about 30secs to get to that login box. also, shutdown only takes a few secs. and if i boot into safe mode, it still takes a long time, so i dont think that its a driver problem.