Windows 10: Will installing a SSD ALONGSIDE a dying HDD (100 Disk Usage) fix the disk usage issue

Listen I really just wanna play GTA V, would installing a SSD fix the problem (I'd transfer the gta v files to the ssd), I already tried pretty much everything, disabling superfecth, etc, I just came to the conclusion that my HDD is dying, so yeah.

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100% disk usage.

Summer has ended and my girlfriend booted her school laptop for the first time in months, only for it to be so unbearably slow that it took several minutes to log in. She handed it to me and said "fix it"... that was 3 days ago and now I am here to humbly
ask the community what is going on with this GD laptop.

It boots and task manager reports 100%CPU usage, it then lags for several seconds and displays 100%disk usage with CPU usage bouncing between 30-60%.

If you leave it alone with task manager running it will eventually quiet down to a reasonable 0-5% disk usage, but doing ANYTHING causes it to bounce right back to 100%.

I have tried EVERYTHING.

• disable superfetch.
• disable microsoft search.
• disable updates and suggestive tips.
• updated to the most current version of microsoft. (it hadn't been updated since 2018 when she bought it.)
• reconfigured AHCI PCIE.
• changed energy options.
• disabled indexing.
• reset the virtual memory.
• ran disk defragment and disabled all scheduling.
• updated all drivers.
• deleted google chrome.
• Disabled all services that weren't microsoft services and disabled all startup programs (clean boot).

Still no change in the disk usage.

Its an HP Laptop model 15-bw0xx with Windows 10 home edition version 10.0.18362

after messing with it this long im considering replacing the HDD with an SSD but I fear that it wont fix the issue.

 

100% disk usage

The most common cause of 100% disk usage appears to be Superfetch and Prefetch, but there are also other causes. You can try disabling both these features and see if it helps.

This article provides steps to disable prefecth and superfetch:

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How to Fix 100% Disk Usage Error in Windows 10

 

100 Disk Usage Constant Issue

Greetings! I have come to ask for assistance on my 100 percent disk usage issue.

When I open any kind of window, the task manager will instantaneously shoot up to 100 percent disk usage until it is finished loading. I know for a fact that this is not supposed to happen.

I do plan to get an SSD Card as I do not have one, but I wanted to make sure that is what I need. Will an SSD Card be able to help with the slow 100 disk usage issue?

I have tried every single solution I found online. I have spent hours to trying to fix the issue, but absolutely no solution worked. I disabled SuperFetch, did an SFC scan, reset my virtual memory, everything that everybody suggested for me to do.

I am hoping an SSD Card helps with the disk problem and will help store some memory to improve performance.

Thank you for reading!