Winodws 7 slows to a crawl after an hour or less of use. Restart required to speed back up.

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for the last 2 months I have had the frustrating issues of my rig slowing to a crawl. At its worst I would type in 3 words before the first letter appears on screen, web pages take forever to start and I have a fast connection, the steam client becomes unresponsive and I have to click on a button in said client 10-20 times before the button clicks and sometimes the steam client stops responding and crashes after going white if I click on it at all. I restart the rig and all is well.....

for an hour or less and slows to a crawl.

I did full scans with MalwareBytes Premium and Baidu AV and ran Adwcleaner and Ccleaner. made sure no dodgy plugins were in Firefox or Chrome, made sure no wierd programs I did not install were in my programs section of control panel. I did a repair install without luck and even wiped my boot drive and did a clean install of window 7 pro (x64). No Dice!

I also went into msconfig and found the only processes in startup were ones I use, Steam, Origin, Nvidia, Security programs.

WTF is doing this to me? I have been googling all day and nothing works for me. This is driving me completely bonkers. I am sick of restarting my rig every hour or less.

PLEASE ASSIST!

My Specs:

Telstra NBN Gateway (With 2.4Ghz WiFi)
Telstra NBN Broadband (100Mbps Download / 40Mbps Upload)
Windows 7 Professional SP1 (x64)
ASUS z97-K Motherboard
Intel i7-4790k@ 4.0-4.4Ghz
Noctua NH-L12 Air Cooler
32Gb Corsair Vengeance Pro 2400 DDR3 RAM
Gigabyte Geforce GTX970 G1 gaming with Windforce Cooler, Backplate and 4Gb GDDR5 RAM
355.98 Nvidia Display drivers
over 10Tb storage
Google Chromecast Device
Logitech F-710 Wireless controller
Logitech G710+ Gaming Keyboard
Logitech G502 Proteus Core customizeable Gaming mouse with 8 buttons
Logitech Extreme 3D Pro Flightstick
ASUS VG278 27" 3D Monitor 120Hz with Nvidia 3D vision 2 (3D Disabled when troubleshooting)
3D Vision 2 shutter glasses kit
600w PSU
Fractal Design Define XL R2 Full tower case (side panel removed to reduce heat)
 

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Crystaldiskinfo says my primary drive and it's boot partition are good. The only drive that says caution is my D: drive.

Seatools brings up my hdd's but not their designations so I am testing all of them as I can't identify which one is the primary drive with the boot partition.

That will take some time. I will update this post when I have more info.

EDIT: one disk failed and gave a rating of 40% but I am not yet sure if that was the D: drive that Crystaldiskinfo gave a caution on.

EDIT2: it was my primary drive :'(
 

Reyaz123

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To identify the disk, press Windows key + R or open run and type in diskmgmt.msc
Right click on the drive (disk 0, disk 1, disk 2, etc.), choose properties (their labels will be shown)
 

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the CPU cooler is mounted correctly. I had issues with it after the peanuts re-mounted it backward when I got my new case, RAM and GFX card around 3 months ago.

 

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Yup it was the primary drive that failed. #%$@!!!!!!!! I have no room on my other drives to do another boot partition on. I need to find some cash quick smart and get a new HDD before my rig goes tits up.

Primary drive passed SMART test but failed epic on Short Generic test.

Is there any way I can do a repair other than chkdsk? Chkdsk has always failed when used on all my HDD's
 

Reyaz123

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That has to be the big issue here

I wouldn't say that it is failing completely, but it is a major risk to continue using that hard drive with data loss
1.Backup all data to an external drive, or upload files to google drive or onedrive
2.Make a system repair disc to use on the new hdd http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Recovery-Disc-in-Windows-7
3.Physical errors can't really be fixed, unless it is under warranty
4.Replace the drive, or use it out until it fails (as long as data is all backed up, you should be fine for the time being)

Edit: Shouldn't run chkdsk until all data is backed up. Use as much time as you can backing up your data and then try chkdsk later. Why? because it can fail any time and the time you have should be used to backup data
 

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I am really going to fast track getting those 2 8Tb HDD's I've been after.