Windows 10: Any problems with having OS and software installed one both drives? Also diagnostic help.

So I have an old 1.25 TB HDD (D: Drive) which is my backup drive now. Used to be my main drive, and still has old installed programs, OS, and steam.

Now I use a SSD (C: Drive) for my main drive and it runs the OS, Steam, and my software now.

I never wiped the old drive, uninstalled OS or software, or anything like that. (Yeah I know this is probably bad) And when I got the newer SSD, I installed OS and steam, and just went into Settings -> downloads -> steam library folder and linked the old drive game location to play all those old games.

Is there any inherent problem with doing it this way? I was just a bit lazy and it seems unclean to keep around multiple software versions for Steam. Not a very advanced user, not sure if this can cause problems with registry or anything like that.

I ask because lately (1 week or so) when I run CS:GO, I started getting bad stuttering, and when I go into task manager it shows 100% disk usage on my D: Drive. But, I have double checked and everything I am using (OS, Steam, CS:GO) are all located on my C: drive. (checked in file explorer and in steam game properties.)

The stuttering seems to start after I load a game map. Not in the menu. Could this be windows 10 misbehaving, or my old drive dying? But, would a bad drive slow down my system as a whole? If not the other culprit could be my older RAM. I just figured I would get some advice/insight into the issue. Thanks for any help.

Also two follow up questions, - Is there good way to see what drives are actively being used by specific software? I know in task manager -> performance you can see each drives utlization, but it's not very detailed per drive. - whould windows antivirus run on my HDD for scans, even if I hardly change the files on the drive?

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