Inordinate delay in accessing my drives

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Am using WinXP Pro SP2 with 512 mb ram Indeing Service off
When I click on Start -> My Computer it instantly opens.
However when I click on anyone of the drives in My Computer it lakes more than 10 to 20 seconds to open the selected drive. Thereafter averyrhing is fine.

Need your help to resolve this issue
Regards
Nariman

PS : Am ot sure whether I have postewd this earlier as I cannot fin it in search

theres a possibility that there might be a bad sector or something.. better backup that disk before its too late... many drives show some sign that say ''I... I... I.. ammm ammmmm dyyyyiiiiinnnnng'' it happened twice with my 160gb samsung pata drive.. i literally hate samsung for just that.. sold off my pata and now on i only buy sata hdd way better than pata

my problem is opp, when i click on mycomp, many a times 'i go 2 sleep' *smilies.sofrayt.com/^/aiw/boredom.gif b4 it actually opens, the searching animation goes on and on and on... thereafter alls fine.

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have u done disk defragment???

About those drives .
One reason i can think of is that there might be many files as soon as you open the drive.
So it takes time to open it up.