Hoping one of the techies out there can lend a thought to this.

Just built up a new PC and wanted to transfer the data from the old to the new by plugging in the IDE disc from the old into the new box (always kept data on a separate drive to the OS).

New PC runs like a dream without the IDE drive in (running OS off a SATA drive). Put it in and it grinds to a halt.

OS now takes 15 mins to load and running a read test on the drive its reading at 1MB/s – which is far too slow, especially compared to how it was in the old PC.

Any ideas?

BTW – its an ASUS motherboard running a Phenom CPU

No experience of this issue, but which IDE channel are you plugging the drive into?
I’d try it on the secondary, and set it as a slave or cable select rather than a master (which is presumably is set to).

No idea if this will help, but it might… 🙂

EDIT: Might be worth checking what the BIOS settings are for the IDE channels too – worth a punt.

Can’t you just use an IDE/USB adapter and plug the drive in externally? Saves a lot of messing about.

Only one channel on the new MB – worked out it is the drive as it is really slow on my old PC too.