Will putting games on a separate HDD to windows stop 100% disk usage affecting games?

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Gary LeCheers

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My current HDD, which is about four years old and was cheap when I bought it, often spikes to 100% usage for prolonged periods of time (especially after launching games), and is at constant 100% usage when I turn my computer on for quite some time. I've tried a variety of fixes which failed to work and so can only assume it is a result of being cheap and old. This creates issues such as insanely long loading times, textures not loading properly, and fps drops. Would getting another HDD and putting only my games on it fix this problem? Or would it not do anything because windows was still on the old broken hard drive. I only ask because transferring all my files and my OS to a new HDD is a lot of effort and may be unnecessary.
 
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It might help a little, but I think there's got to be something running on Windows that's pegging the hard drive. I'm not familiar enough with the various processes in Windows (I assume Win10) that might contribute to what you're seeing, though.

But I highly doubt that the 100% usage is caused by any hardware issue with the HDD itself.
 
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What's weird (and I probably should have mentioned this in the original post) is that my HDD gets stuck at 100% when there are literally no programs or services using it. A load of background tasks are using 0.1-0.2 MB/S of disk usage and it still stays at 100%, for what reason I have no idea.
 
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Here is a screen shot. The processes that are using the most disk usage varies often. As you can see I have 99/100% when the programs running are using hardly any of my disk.
http://i.imgur.com/uEIxhcq.jpg A lot of the the time these programs drop down to 0.1/0.2 MB/s but usage is still 100%.
 
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