Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.
Yep, could be your drive, but the fact is, Vista uses the lowest scoring component in your system as your "score".... so just open up the Windows Experience Index and see what component is causing your score to be so low....
For reference, my primary Hard Disk is a 5 year old 80g Barracuda and it scores a 5.2....
And really, those scores don't mean shit anyhow.....
You need to look at the analysis and see which component is scoring the lowest. The WEI is always equal to your lowest score, so if you have 5.9 memory, cpu, and graphics but a 4.0 disk, then your total score will be 4.0
Most people with a single drive system will always be limited by their hard drive. AFAIK only a RAID array will reach 5.9.