justpassingby

Unfortunately, the longer wait time for your drives detection at startup is kind of mandatory once you use sata drives on a system with ide drives.

Theoretically, the Seagate using one single 80GB platter should outperform the Western Digital (3x27GB platters) in pure transfer speeds, at least at the start of the first partition. Average seek times for the Seagate are 8.5ms on the manufacturer's website. Use a drive benchmark utility and see how good (or bad) your disk performs.

Go to disk management (right-click on my computer => manage => disk management) and check that your sata drive is formated using NTFS. If it's FAT32, you most certainly found your problem.