I bought myself a new laptop hard disk, same size as my old one (because it
seemed to be getting extremely loud in use and the new one is almost whisper
quiet). I decided to clone the old one by making an image of it and then
restoring the image onto the new one so win XP wasn't installed from afresh
on this new drive. Ever since, the hard disk activity light has been
constantly on. It doesn't even flicker but just stays on all the time. I
can't hear any disk activity apart from the occasional sound of what I can
only describe as the read head hitting something inside very rapidly in
succession and then stopping for a few minutes. Access to most of my apps
are as normal, but access to Outlook Express is extremely slow to startup. I
figured this might just be remedied with defragmentation of the disk which I
ran but the problem still persists. Any ideas?
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