Hi Larry. One thing to check that I haven't seen mentioned here yet. when you said you changed out your hard-drive, have you checked under device manager and looked under your hard-drive controller to make sure the transfer mode is set correctly. I have winxp, but with an older IDE ATA harddrive and if I don't have my transfer mode set to UDMA 5, which my harddrive supports, I'll get super slow file access and very bad performance in FS9.