The Hard Disk Name is shaded red

Why is the Hard Disk Name is shadded red???? Its kind of slowing my mac down, can anyone tell me whats wrong?

If you're talking about the name of the hard drive on your finder (or desktop) being shaded in red, this can be changed by right clicking on the hard drive icon and selecting the colour label to "X" (none). There is no reason why this would be slowing your computer down whatsoever unless i have misunderstood your problem.
Hope this has helped
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.9) 2G

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i want to access the hard disk and know how many parttions the hard disk have means c,d,e,f,g or may be c,d,e? also volum no or serial no.
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