Solutions for hard to see HDD LED

I was looking for some easier ways to see the hard drive activity since HP has moved the HDD LED to the left or right side of the newer laptops. I really hate not being able to always see what the hard drive is doing since the change in placement of the HDD light. Every laptop I've ever had or worked with has had the HDD LED on top of the base which is a whole lot easier to see than on the side. I'm currently using a free program called DiskLED which puts a light in the system tray which can show a huge selection of items including the HDD but only one at a time. It seems to be very accurate and can be configured to update as fast as you want. I'm still looking for other options that would allow me to have a physical LED that would be viewable from above the keyboard like it was on my previous HP laptop. If anyone know of an easy, cheap fix I would love to know what that is. Thanks

There was a useful blend mode in MacOS 9 and Carbon called "AddOver" that could be used to get high contrast shapes over any background, in a reversible way (great for cursors, paths, etc.). Even on Windows, we can emulate that blend mode.
In Cocoa, Apple doesn't offer that blend mode, nor a way to handle reversible compositing beyond what we are already doing (difference blend mode).
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Apparently HP 3D DriveGuard is already disabled for me (I never messed around with it and it was already disabled) yet I still have the problem. Why do I think this guy is just making false claims, possibly working for HP to make people keep their defective computers with the hope of a fix?
You got me buddy!
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