HDD having random surge in terms of usage with a game that is not even installed there?

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Game: The Surge

Steam is not installed in that HDD, game is not installed in that HDD, nothing is installed in that HD (literally nothing, I even formatted it and now its pure storage), but somehow it can cause random surge in read/write in that HDD, also causing the CPU and GPU load to drop to 0%, resulting in lag in-game.

No other game (such as Dark Souls 3, Overwatch) so far have encountered the same problem.

There must be something wrong with the HDD but how can I know what?
 
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Open Resource Monitor, you can find which process causes the drive access. I'd hold off on assuming "There must be something wrong with the HDD" until you have some valid testing to support that conclusion,
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Open Resource Monitor, you can find which process causes the drive access. I'd hold off on assuming "There must be something wrong with the HDD" until you have some valid testing to support that conclusion,
 
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How do I find that out? There's a lot of stuff in the "Disk" section that is being accessed.
 
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I assume thats HDD problem because I was having trouble with OBS recording. It had similar freeze for the recording output (audio not affected, only video) while games was running perfectly.

Turns out the problem only occurs when I save my output to that HDD that is having a spike here. If I save them to SSD, my old HDD from my old PC, or even the external hard drive, theres no problem.

So I managed to fix it now. It does access the presumably faulty HDD because the game actually write the log file there. I remap my document back to C:/ (my SSD) and the problem is gone. It was me that f-up big time when trying to remap my doc, my pic etc. It becomes like this now:

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It would appear my new HDD is having trouble if something is constantly writing into it. Since both OBS and the log file of this game requires constant writing into the file. But for games that just saves once in a while, it seems to have no problem.

So is there a way to fix the HDD or is the HDD actually is a faulty one?

Also... how can I fix everything being "My Documents" now?
 
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