HDD failure. Took 7 and counting hours to install windows 10.

[May-En]

So last week I noticed ny HDD was running at 100%. When I checked, it was doing a window's update,so I shrugged it off.

The next day, I crashed in the middle of a csgo game and when I restarted the pc, it was at 100% usage again but the system wasn't updating. Failed to install message in windows update and security

This week,the HDD being at 100% became more frequent to the point where I have to restart my computer to even log into windows.It was so laggy and it droze a lot.

Last night,after getting clean results from anti malware scans, and still no fixes,I decided to reset my pc.

Reset went smoothly at first,then it got stuck at 3% for over three hours. I decided to do abort it and do a fresh install from my usb..it went pretty okay,so I went to bed. Here I am 7 hours later, it still is on the loading screen,waiting to get started. I am a bit worried. It's a 1TB seagate HDD that i bought in november of 2015.

Note: before this all happned, I partitioned my HDD with magic partitioner. But that was a montg before any problems became noticable

 

[May-En]

edit: finally got into the setting up. Still hangs a little...never had any of my pc do this before,especially after a fresh reinstall

 

[cilliers]

1. Microsoft broke the "RESET" function of Windows 10 with the 1607 build updagte. So don't try that at home, folks. It will never work.
2. Suggest removing HDD from PC, plugging into another PC and running "crystaldiskinfo". It will give you a quick summary of the SMART and also a GUI will tell you if the drive is "good", "bad" or "excellent".
3. Then we go from there.

PS If your windows is up and running now, you can also run crystaldiskinfo from there... just assuming you don't have a PC right now.