What temps are you getting with your HD4890?

It's safe to copy from one partition to another, yes. However, what slows a mechanical drive down is when it has to copy from one platter of the disk to another. Something stored on a different partition will almost invariably be a different platter [assuming you don't have a single-platter drive] so it will be slower.

 

Caviar black 640gb. Is that a multi platter drive?

Hard drives do wear out though correct? As they wear out even if formatted, they would still be slower than they were brand new? But how much slower?

 

No, hard disks do not become any slower with age, that I've seen. Only if they become full up, or fragmented, which formatting will solve.
I believe the Caviar Black 640GB is a 2-platter drive.

 

What did you mean by this?


Another off topic question:
I installed a program and then there was the right program icon (the right image), the icon that is supposed to be there. After watching a movie using Media Player Classic, the icon was not there(it changed) and it was like a blank Icon image (like it would be if there was program icon)

Program name is combat arms.

I can change the shortcut icon, but not the original one.
This only happened to the CA icon. I reinstalled and rebooted PC, nothing fixed it, ran as admin still.

Running windows 7 64 bit.
Is this normal?

 

I meant exactly what I said. When you're working with both platters of the drive at once, it will mean reduced performance compared to when working with only one platter at a time.

Does the program still open? The only reason you typically get that specific icon is if the program the shortcut refers to no longer exists.

 

Yes it still opens. The program the shortcut refers to is that icon too. I reinstalled it, still doesn't fix the problem.

It happened after watching a movie using media player classic. It did not happen before, right after I installed windows 7 64 bit.

It's only for that program. I need to open it with windows 7 basic theme(Will not work with the advanced themes of windows 7). I'm not sure if it's the program that does that or if something is wrong.

 

It may just be a corrupt icon cache then, happens sometimes. Not really much to worry about.