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Old November 14th, 2020, 01:28 PM
Hordriss Hordriss is offline
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Does my HDD need replacing?

Recently, my laptop has been excruciatingly slow to do pretty much anything.

Loading up the task manager shows the HDD to be at 100% usage pretty much all the time.

I've tried various things suggested online such as:-
- Temporarily disabling Windows Defender.
- Disabling Superfetch
- Disabling Windows Search

Nothing helped.

I've scanned for Malware using both the Windows Defender antivirus and Malwarebytes - nothing is detected.

I'm running an HP Pavillion Laptop with the following specs:
Ryzen 5 2500U APU
16GB 2400MHz RAM
1TB HDD

I first noticed something was up when recording audio via Cakewalk, as I was getting audio dropouts, with error messages suggesting issues with the HDD not being able to keep up, but as I wasn't getting this recording through Reaper I initially put this down to a Cakewalk update. But, everything else is slowing down and I can't just assume it's the software any more!

Screenshots of task manager below:





I'm thinking this is possibly a sign my HDD is failing and needing to be replaced, but I'd like to have the opinion of others more knowledgeable on this sort of thing before going down that route.

Thanks in advance!
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