Need Help -- mobo & HD mis-match??

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Hi all...

Bit of a newbie to all things technical so need your help on this. I have a computer that's about six years old. Asus P2L97 mobo with 266 mhz Pentium Pro processor, running Win 98 SE. Been working fine for a long while with a very small hard drive (I'm NOT a gamer). A friend offers me a 10 gig Maxtor drive to upgrade my system. I re-format his drive and simply copy and paste entire contents of my current drive to the new one (including OS). Now the thing runs like molasses. Takes forever to boot up, to open programs, in Word, I type a line and it doesn't appear on the screen for 5 seconds -- everything is just deathly slow.

So I do a little research on my own and discover that my mobo is a UDMA/33 and the new HD is UDMA/66. Not really sure what the significance of this is, but it seems that it's a mis-match, yes?

The question: Is there anything I can do short of buying a new mobo or processor to take advantage of the new HD without a huge expense. Is this a problem that can be addressed with a new BIOS or does anyone have any other suggestions? If you need more data on my system see below. Appreciate anything anyone can offer.

The tech guy at Asus (who didn't seem very knowledgeable said it's a dead end because board will limit data transfer to 33 mhz). I told him that speed was just fine when I had the old hard drive in but now it's 15 times slower! Any ideas?

BIOS Date: 12/2/97
BIOS Type: Award Modular v4.51 PG
Chipset: Intel 440EX/LX rev3
128 mb memory

Thanks,

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[RicheemxX]

your biggest problem is the copy and paste of the old contents. Thats not really a good idea with any new hardware. The best option is a clean install but that might not be necessary. You can try to download the drive tools from the hard drives manufactures website and if you still have the old drive format and partion the new one and it will give options to copy the excising drive{the old one}

The new drive will run just fine at the old boards speeds it will run at 33mhz not 66 but you need to install the drive properly. Double check the connections and the drive settings.

edit: just noticed this is a double post....please don't post more than one thread for your problem it creates a great deal of confusion.