wd5000bpvt-22hxzt3 and windows xp

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hello,

I recently bought an wd5000bpvt-22hxzt3 500gb 2.5 inch hdd to replace my laptop’s internal hdd.

I cloned the data to the new disk (windows xp with 2 partitions) but the performance was very poor.

I then read about advanced format drives and downloaded and run wdalign utility to align the partitions properly.

Even after that the performance is still poor.My question is, if I upgrade windows xp → vista → 7 will I see improvement

or a clean install of Win7 is the only way?

thank you

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After using the align tool under Windows XP, you should be able to update to Windows Vista without problems. Your hard drive model supports a Host to/from drive (sustained) transfer rate of 116 MB/s, note that this will vary depending on your system configuration. To be sure, you can also run a test using DLG. 

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