So i have an acer aspire E 15 laptop and its a pretty good one i5 8th gen with 4gb of ddr3 ram but i'll be upgrading that, and 2 tb of hdd. The problem is everytime I open it up it takes about 5 minutes to boot or just 3 minutes if im lucky. Then when it did boot up it is unusable because of the hdd being used 100% by something else (sometimes system, sometimes updates, or just random stuff). Its not intended for gaming but i did used it for light gaming like osu (that game can run even on a potato pc) but its primarily for editing (lightly) and browsing. The hdd is the only problem i see slowing the system down, the ram barely reaches 90% and the cpu too (max boost of 3.6 ghz with 4 cores). Any fix to this? i have tried disabling windows update, uninstalling unnecessary stuff, i tried cleaning but it didn't work. Will reformating it solve the problem? because sometimes it wont even boot to windows and will just be stuck on acer loading screen.
side note: i have a pc and it doesn't have this kind of problem, is this exclusive to laptops only?
side note: i have a pc and it doesn't have this kind of problem, is this exclusive to laptops only?