Hard Drive Problems

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I have recently begun to run into some problems with my hard drive, and I'm hoping you can help me fix these problems.

I'll start from the beginning. When I first built this computer, I started out with a Single 250gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 hard drive. I quickly ran out of space, and bought a 300gb WD Velociraptor. I re-installed XP onto a 50gb partition of the raptor (made another partition for storage), and then wiped the Barracuda clean, later dividing the barracuda into two partitions, a 32 gb one and a 200gb one.

Now, I sort of had a plan for what I wanted each hard drive to be used for. I wanted the 50gb Velociraptor partition to be used for XP, programs, games, and it works great for that, things load very quickly. I wanted the remaining 230 velociraptor gb to be used to store my photos only, as they are the only things other than programs that I need to load quickly. so I loaded about 80 gb of photos onto the velociraptor storage partition.

Next I had to decide what to do with the barracuda. I'm saving the 32gb partition for an alternate OS (maybe dual boot vista someday). The 200gb barracuda partition, I decided, would become my general storage drive. On this drive I want all my documents, I want all my movies, all my music, I rerouted anything I download from utorrent, limewire, firefox, chrome, and ie to certain locations on this barracuda drive.

Now here's my problem: whenever I get to any screen that asks me find a location to save anything, or a screen that asks me to find a file to open in a certain program, once I click on the hardrive I want to load up it takes forever for me to show what is inside. I'll get into the little window, I'll hit my computer, i'll double click drive F: (called Barracuda Storage), or whatever (it even happens with the raptor) and then about 5 minutes later I'll see the folders in F: show up. What's going on? Does it have to do with the motherboard? I have a Gigabyte DS3L. After I click on the drive I can hear it spinning, the hard drive activity light on my case turns solid blue, and I just have to wait. I KNOW this drive wasn't this slow before I made it my secondary drive, so what could be happening?
SCREEN OF PROBLEM HAPPENING:

My second problem is My documents. Right now the default location is C:, obviously. Is there any way to make my OS recognize a 'MY DOCUMENTS' folder on the F: Barracuda Storage drive as the default? This would save alot of heartache.

Thanks alot guys, I appreciate everything you do to help me, you all know that Please let me know if anything I've asked about needs clarifying and I'll do that ASAP.

Hey guys still need some help lplease

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