T420 4178 XP32 downgrade HHD slowness issue

Hi everyone , i just recieved my brand new T420 and i need a few advices please.
I have downgraded my 420 4178 to win xp 32 and my 500 gb 7200 rpm sata drive is slow. [hitachi hts72755]
When i copy a 300mo folder from my desktop to my desktop it takes 2 min
When i copy the same folder from usb Flash drive1 to my desktop it takes 2 min too.
But when i copy the same folder from flash usb drive1 to usb flash drive 2 its fast and fine. Same results with usb hdd.
Its the same for software/archive reading from internal hard driv,e its soo slow, but extratring a rar archive on a flash drive works fine.
I ve tryed all the drivers provided by lenovo support, installed the net framwork 3.5 sp1 made a few installation with XP1 PRO32 and XP3 PRO 32 , with sata mode and compatybility mode [all clean install with AHCI and ISATOR driver included in the win cds] even tryed a windows xp family french spd2 lol. Everything is fine in the device manager. but it keep slowing.
IThen tryed the same tests just after a fresh install with no drivers at all and its still slow, in both sata and compat mode.
The lenovo pass the hd tune bench with success and the lenovo hard drive checking tool too. I will upload screen shoots soon since my t420 is actually formatting...
The only weird thing is, under hdd tune the blue curve keep hitting the ground to 1.5 mo for the minimum, and it make it 6 or 7 time for a bench.
I did not test this on windows 7 since i formatted it directly at the exit of the box , what a mistake.
Checked if windows did not disable the DMA to PIO or something , ive deleted a few registry entry like MasterIdDataCheckSum” and “SlaveIdDataCheckSum” and trhe issue keeps occuring.
see last post here on this page
http://www.pommepause.com/blog/2009/11/fix-a-suddenly-very-slow-sata-hard-drive-problem/
I dont know where to search for now, trying to find a HDD firmware for [hitachi hts72755] with no success.
Even a test with linux, the hard drive is formatted but the software installer crash after it. LOL.
I dont own any Seven installer anymore and the recovery partition have been deleted.
I know these little t420 usually works fine with xp 32. but why not this one? ;]
Thank you all for your advices, thanks.
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I haven't been able to find specs on that drive. If it's an Advanced Format drive (with 4k-byte sectors) it will perform very poorly - even though it can do 512-byte sector emulation, or maybe more accurately because of the emulation - unless the partitions are properly aligned.
You might try running the Hitachi alignment tool: http://www.hitachigst.com/internal-drives/advanced-format-drives
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