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Odd hard drive behavior
I have one month old 1tb hybrid hard drive and yesterday I was experiencing issues with it.
It started to run slower than usual. Games wouldn't load as quickly and when I first booted into windows the desktop icons appeared as blank pieces of paper. Then when I opened windows explorer the quick access icons and hard drive icon were also blank pieces of paper. When I restarted windows explorer via task manager the missing icons were fixed but when I clicked on my primary drive it wouldn't load (said "working on it" and all the icons on the left side of the window were completely gone). Did multiple disk checks and came up with 0 errors.
Also cortana wouldn't start (couldn't type in the search box) and when I tried to open the start menu it would flash for a split second then close. Took a few tries to actually get it to open. This happened before but all I had to do was reinstall the Nvidia drivers then install them again to get cortana to work again.
After about two hours of uninstalling both the Intel and Nvidia drivers and numerous reboots and trying tons of commad prompt commands all of a sudden cortana started up again. Then I opened windows explorer and the missing icons were fixed. Then I clicked on my primary drive and waited for it to load and after about a minute it loaded and seemed to work fine. Did a reboot and everything loaded properly and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
I'm wondering if my hard drive is failing and if I should replace it or if this is just a software issue with windows 10.