Windows 8.1 disk usage 100% HELP

amyhorseshappiness

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In June my dad bought me a beautiful new computer. He got all the parts and assembled it himself (he knows computers very well) but all the sudden, I don't know maybe a month after, all the sudden I noticed my computer would slow down, and I mean it was so slow doing anything was impossible. It lasted only a few minutes the first time. This was a recurring problem, and gradually the time got longer, soon spiking like this for HOURS. In this time, the computer is unbearably slow. If I turn it off while in one of these spikes, I get a black screen with the words "a disk read error has occurred. Press ctrl+alt+del to restart" you can press control alt delete as many times as you please, but this message keeps coming up. Eventually when I come back to it after maybe an hour it starts up normally only to spike at some time later. It seems random and not at any specific time, but it's frequent. The only things using more than 0.1 mb/s is system sometimes and Norton, but I tried uninstalling Norton and this was still happening so that's not the cause.
I finally reinstalled the operating system. This solved the problem... For about a month. Then it started again. So I reinstalled the os again thinking it would work the same, but the next day it was still doing it. PLEASE HELP!
 
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amyhorseshappiness

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OS: Windows 8.1
CPU: AMD Athlon X4 750K Trinity Quad-Core 3.4GHz Socket FM2 100W Desktop Processor - Black Edition AD750KWOHJBOX
Motherboard: ASRock FM2A75M Pro4+ FM2+ / FM2 AMD A75 (Hudson D3) HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
Graphics card:HIS iCooler H250XF1G Radeon R7 250X 1GB 128-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
Power Supply: Antec VP-450 450W ATX 12V v2.3 Power Supply - Intel Haswell Fully Compatible
RAM: G.SKILL NS 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Desktop Memory Model F3-10600CL9D-4GBNS

The only thing I don't know if the hard drive, which is what I would guess is the most important. Is there any software that can tell me?
 


You could use your device manager in your control panel
 
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