Replacing HDD after countless attempts to fix computer?

Richie_18

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Hey all.

So about a year ago, I built my own gaming PC and I installed windows 8.1 through a flash drive before eventually upgrading to Windows 10. Please keep in mind that I used a 1TB HDD as my storage. Everything was working fine until I started noticing that my disk usage would skyrocket to 99%-100% pretty much all the time. At first, I looked at the disk usage on the task manager, it became apparent that most of the disk usage was due to underlying processes since the top listed process was only 1MB/s. I've done plenty of clean installs that seem to work for maybe a couple hours max, but unfortunately it always returns to 100% disk usage and my computer is unbearably slow.

Do you guys think that replacing my HDD with an SSD or another HDD will improve the performance or will the issue reside?

Thanks.
 

Coedgy

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I personally reinstalled windows saving the important files on flash drives. But sure, if your HDD is bad replacing it to a better one will help.
Open taskmgr and sort from the most disk usage and see what can you delete?
 

Richie_18

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I have actually tried looking through the task manager to see what is using the disk so much. However the highest displayed usage is only about 1MB/s. This leads me to believe that it is an underlying issue. I also forgot to mention that I have been having issues downloading games from Steam. I have concluded that the issues do not lie in neither the network nor the valve servers (since I was able to download games from the same server and network onto a different computer). Would replacing the HDD also take care of this issue?