Hard drive speed & OS cloning

[Grant]

My one laptop had a 7200rpm drive.
I decided to upgrade the drive to a higher capacity, the new drive is a standard 5400rpm drive.
I then created a clone of the old drive on the new drive & installed it.
Everything is fine, except from time to time & get a OS system freeze with the spinning beach ball (apple).
This has only occurred on the new drive, never the old one.

Could this possibly be related to the fact that the operating system etc was initially installed on a higher speed drive & although the content is identical the drive speed containing the original content is now slower ?

 

[Wyzak]

If the clone was successful it is very unlikely that it would have caused any issues. It is probably related to the difference in hdd speeds. I have seen a few applications that need reactivation after cloning because they actually use the harddrive's serial number in their unique ids. 5400rpm is also a lot slower than 7200rpm, so I hope for your sake that it's only a temporary move.

 

[sajunky]

I can't comment on Mac, but poor quality of a new drive could cause it. These days is not uncommon that a brand new drive is failing.
Check SMART, but - more important - boot from live CD and scan the entire drive surface for delays. MHDD (DOS) and Victoria (DOS and Windows) programs are included on Hiren's boot CD. Post results here.