Sorry to bring back an old thread, but I finally got around to replacing my hard drive with a WD 500GB drive. Almost immediately after loading windows 7, I noticed that the exact same problem appears again (system freezes, hard drive light constantly on during the freeze). Any thoughts on...
Another thing I forgot to mention...I am running Windows 7. I did a fresh install with Ubuntu, then another with Windows 7 again and had the same problem with each install of both operating systems.
Alright, thanks! Maybe I'll use this as an excuse to upgrade the hard drive while I'm at it.
I have a sony laptop which is a few years old. It recently developed a problem where the hard drive access light goes to a solid on and then anything after that which involves the hard drive (opening a file, etc.) causes the computer to freeze up. The light will stay on for a few minutes with...