Kryotix

First of all, thank you so much for kindly explaining this to me. Second of all, if I were to upgrade to a SSD, I would keep this hard drive as a mass storage device. That means moving over all of my important stuff into another partition so I can safely remove the OS from the hard drive. That's what I'm preparing for at the moment. I have 200 GB of Steam files that need to get moved to D drive, and it's become a desperate situation because as soon as I tell Windows to move the files from C drive to D, it goes up in speed, but as soon as task manager shows 100% it just goes down in speed until it flatlines. Is there any temporary fix for this or do I have to leave my laptop running overnight (I have done that and it barely moved 100GB) ?

I've already tried all of those out. The thing is, boot up is fine, it takes like 10 seconds or less sometimes. It just likes to jump up to 100% for no reason at all.

Thank you for the bumps, boys! I am aware that Windows 10 likes to be fussy, especially with crappy hard-drives, but I want some actual fixes/ideas. I don't have the money to spend on a SSD right now, so I'm looking for a fix before I will eventually buy one.

I have a 2017 Lenovo Legion Y520-IKBM laptop. In task manager, sometimes the disk is at 100% even though there is nothing to make it go to 100% usage. Usually it's some background microsoft app using 0.1 MB/s. I've tried so many "fixes" from all around the internet and the problem still persists. I've seen it push itself to 150 MB/s sometimes but as soon as it hits 100% disk usage everything comes down to a grinding halt, and the usage will stay at 100% for quite some time. On Lenovo's website there are no hard drive drivers (?) to be seen (or I am just extremely blind). I must also mention that it has a 2TB 5400rpm hard drive. Thanks in advance!

Thank you so much, dude! You've saved me from having a mental breakdown lol. Forza is still very laggy but that's just Forza being an unreliable, RAM-hungry piece of garbage port.

I have a 2017 Lenovo Legion Y520 IKBM-80YY. Specs are as follows: CPU: i7 7700HQ GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Max-Q RAM: 8GB DDR4L 2666 MHZ CL17 HDD: Seagate 2TB 5400 RPM OS: Windows 10 Pro 1809 So, when I bought this laptop brand new back in 2017 every game seemed to run fine on it. Then I installed Forza Horizon 3 and again, for the first week no issues. Then, it started stuttering really really bad. This is where everything started to come apart. Fast forward to today and almost none of my games seem to be working as they should. I have games like Forza Horizon 4, PUBG, and Assetto Corsa which refuse to let me past the menu screen. They do their thing, when they load stuff and then they just crash. In the case of Forza Horizon 4 and Assetto Corsa it seems to just close the game without an error prompt or anything. In the case of PUBG and other Unreal Engine-based games it shows me "Error,*something-something* out of video memory. Exiting...". Even on general Windows tasks, it sometimes takes forever to do something. I once let it run disk defragmentation all night only to find it the next morning at pass 7. I can not find a reason for all of these things. Is it the single channel ram? Is it the slow hard drive? Is the graphics card broken? I am running out of options and brain power to cope with the fact that I spent almost 1000 euros on a 3kg brick that can't do almost anything. I should also mention that all my drivers are up to date and this problem still persists. Thank you in advance!

I have a laptop that has a GT610M in it,but my new rig will have a 1070.I still hope I win though,I might switch to AMD if it's better than the 1070