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You will notice a HUGE difference. According to that URL, your drive has a 5400 RPM spindle speed, and only 256 KB of buffer. It will be night and day. Check storagereview.com for good drive reviews. The Western Digital drives with 8MB buffer are currently the fastest available IDE...

The hard drive probably is not the cause of the problems you are having with XP. Going in to Device Manage should tell you what drive you have. Otherwise, just open up your case and look at the sticker on the drive. If you are going to get a new one, I highly recommend the Western Digital...