Apparently my IT thinks what you're saying is not that sensible T_T

We are on the same page indeed. I have already been assigned another machine as the one with HDD issues is going to be phased out anyway. Still it would be nice to have it working, but it's more of a...

Megahertz yes I'm afraid you are right. Will do the chkdsk too, it's on the chklist. Thanks

@cereberus @Berton I do agree but IT could definitely be a little more empathetic at the moment, it is...

I will definitely run hard disk sentinel, unfortunately it's my workplace PC and I have not a lot of flexibility and today it was not possible. I will update the thread about that too

Since it...

So here I am. Windows build is 19045.3803

I have found corrupt files which I cannot delete (error 0x80070570). Before doing anything else I'd really like to delete these files, I have already...

Oh, alright then, will keep that in mind. It might also become useless when the disk is so slow I fear

I have taken notes of all the software suggested (and will in case there is more). I won't have access to the PC for the next two weeks but I will update the thread when I'll have news about my poor...

we shoot for the stars :D

That is nice indeed. The scarier part is that at my workplace (where my PC is) they don't have any sort of server to backup even just data o.0

I do think some bad sectors is most likely it. Still hoping for the quick easy fix though :rolleyes:

Thanks for the event viewer link, that will come in handy too

Will do, thanks

One last thing, before the PC had any issue I moved a large folder (something like 60 GB of various stuff) which went well and I'm not sure if there might be any correlation with...

Thanks, I will keep in mind everything for when I'll be able to do some more troubleshooting

I wonder then if any issue with Windows itself is to be excluded completely?

Thanks everyone again

some days are just worse than the others lol

I'm sorry, I tried to google it before asking clarification but it didn't help. At least now I know, thanks

The disk is one but it's divided in two partitions (system + data) but I don't know if...

Thanks, I did try safe mode and it still did the slow response time thing (if by surface check you mean just a quick check)

dalchina thanks for your reply and the chkdsk tip, think it's the only next step left. Unfortunately IT hasn't been particularly friendly

I'd love to run winver but I won't physically have access...

@Hearsepilot Megahertz thanks for your replies, of course upgrading to SSD is out of the question since it depends on my workplace. I will run CrystalDiskInfo when I get back to the machine, though...

Hi everyone, at work I have an HDD machine which has always been reliable, then apparently out of the blue it now has this really frustrating issue that makes it unusable

100% disk usage on HDD is...

I'd really like to get over all of this, the problem is that this activity (together with other program that access the same folder, as mmc.exe, systemsettings.exe, even firefox, along with other...

I'm scared of how powerful the imagination of who designed Windows must be.

I've checked consent.exe as you've suggested and it's signed by Microsoft so it should be ok. I'd hope there is some...

Hi, I have installed Solidworks on my PC's secondary HDD and consent.exe (and others, but baby steps for now) kinda regularly (and frequently) accesses a fonts folder located in the Solidworks...

I'm sorry for all the consecutive messages. I might have found a possible explanation for the disk activity I am encountering. By throwing at the web some of the names of the operations registered by...

Thanks, now I have temporarily switched to AHCI and unfortunately I am getting the same old behaviour. I'll attach two more screenshots just in case

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I have not tried uninstalling...

Thank you, I have been in touch with both Dell and Intel for other issues about the drive controller so nothing about what you're saying ever came up. Right now the controller in Device Manager is an...

Thanks :)

Alright then, I will try disabling indexing for that drive. I suppose doing it by right clicking on the drive and uncheck "allow indexing for this drive" is fine. For now I'll try...