Installing games in separate harddrive

Will it help? i have 2x500GB drives. i want to have one for the OS(Windows XP) and the other will be used for games + applications. Will my PC be faster?

i am asking 'cause when i exit a game the drive is getting quite noisy and windows is slower for 1-2 minutes.

intel core 2 E8400

8800 gts

2GB 800MHz

It could just be Windows swapping back in data it transfered to Virtual Memory while you were playing the game.

If the HDD is failing, it'll probably sound like a clicking noise, or pretty much it's pretty obvious if the drive is on it's last legs. Plus, you'd be getting random read and write errors in Windows.

if your board supports it just put the two drives in raid 0, that will speed up load times and stuff.