Hard drive stays on for awhile?

Greetings,

I have a hp Pavilion dv5 Laptop, since last month, the laptop becomes slow because of the light on the computer portable hard drive stays on for awhile. This happens especially during the playback of a video file on my laptop. I tried full sweep, Malwarebytes, Fix from microsoft, disabled some startup program... did not help. Can someone help me please? :-(

Windows 7 Home Premium

Processor: Intel core 2 due 2.66 GHz 2.67 GHz

RAM: 4 GB (3 GB usable)

System type: 32-bit operating system

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