Define "dead slow", is browsing slow, is the machine itself slow? Are specific apps slow, or the OS's slow? And by slow are windows drawing slowly? Do you see alot of disk activity?
So Linux itself is not slow, its windows thats being slow? I doubt that its something to do directly with the install of a second hard drive and putting linux on it although I might be wrong, you may want to cross post this in the Windows forum to see if anyone might be able to give you some help, I unfortunately don't use windows at all so I'm not much of a resource
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