Hd upgrade due to problems with 72k hd

I have a 80gb 7200.3 seagate in my latitude e6500. I'm getting constant "freezes" when watching movies, and it has times when it makes a hell of a vibration noise. I never had any of these experiences with my old inspiron laptop and the 5400rpm hdd... Anyways, i was thinking that upgrading the hdd will fix these. I'm debating a 5400rpm and the 7200rpm 320gb WD hdd's. What should i get? should i keep away from the 7200? is there any way of fixing the problems i mentioned?

 

Yes you can fix your problems, your machine is hanging because there are most likely too many background processes eating up your cpu and harddrive.
Go to the start orb, go to the run command and type in MSCONFIG
Go through and shut off any services/programs/processes you are not using. That will make your system much faster.
You should try to aim for about 35 processes at Idle if you are using XP, and about 45 for vista

If you do not know which processes does what, check this link out, it explains them all:
http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/processlibrary/

You should also perform regular maintenance on your laptop, (defragmenting, disc cleanup)
Your slowdown may be directly related to antivirus running in the background, so check your scheduling on their too

K-TRON

 

Thx. I don't think that is the problem, because i already tried that, and my computer even got a checkup by a lab. Anyways, what should i upgrade too?

 

Are you sure they knew what they were doing?
A 3year old harddrive can easily play blue ray movies with a pentium 4 processor, without stuttering.

Which graphics card do you have, the integrated Intel, or the dedicated, that could be your problem there.

I really dont think its the harddrive, because the 7200.3 is a very fast drive

K-TRON

 

I have the nvidia quadro nvs 160. I spoke to the tech guy, he said he ran all the drive check ups he can think of, nothing came up.

 

A program running in the background could be accessing your hard drive for whatever reason, try shutting down any unnecessary programs on your taskbar. Something like an antivirus or antispyware program or something that indexes your media files among other things could be accessing your hard drive.

 

All I have on is nod32, sometimes azureus and greedytorrent. I have vista ultimate 32bit.

 

Do you have Nod32 set to scan in the background?

Also check the health of your drive using HD Tune (Free version).

Check the health status page and run an error scan, report back with your findings.

 

That will have to take a while, I'm not near my laptop right now. Thanks for all the help!