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How long have you had your laptop? The problem is clearly battery based and batteries degrade over time, and it' not unheard of for one to take a sudden dip in performance. Another reason could be that when you were changing your hard drive you accidentally loosened the connection from the...

Sounds like the fans may be damaged, or the cooler. This can happen when the cooler isn't firmly against the CPU, thus the CPU gets hot, thus the fans speed up, etc. it could be something in the settings as well if your laptop has fan control software. Although it sounds like a physical issue.