Macbook Hard Disk Swap Woes

I recently purchased a hitachi 7200 rpm 200 gig hd, when i placed it into my macbook rev C (2.0 core 2 duo) the laptop ran at 150 degrees according to istat pro. This was at idle! I used an external enclosure and carbon copy cloner to clone the hard disk then simply replaced it. I decided to use this drive as a time machine drive and got an Apple 160gb Fujitsu drive from OWC. I cloned it and installed it and again, 150 degrees. I doubt that I am installing it incorrectly as each time i replace the stock drive the temperature returns to 108F at idle. What am I doing incorrectly? Is there a firmware update I have missed?

Hey inducedaphonia and welcome to the forum -
During your switching process, are you moving the EMI shield from the old (original) drive to the new one? You'd be using a Torx T8 to do this. -GDF

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