I'm having a problem with my newer pc that I'm fairly certain has to do with a faulty hard drive. My computer has an ssd and an hard drive, the OS itself is on the ssd but some main files such as my documents and the desktop are on the hard drive which I think is what is leading to the problems I am having. The hard drive I have has been having issues where it where every once in a while completely die if I am working with it, although I should of done something about it earlier I didn't and now I'm in this situation. Whenever I start up my pc it gets to the windows 10 login pretty easily but once I login the desktop it is pitch black, sometimes the Taskbar comes up and even when it does it isn't "complete". I was able to open the task manager on one boot and according to it my hard drive was at 100%use which indicates to me that somethings up. It also takes forever to shut down and it seems to be getting longer and more problematic the more I turn the system on and off. Is there anything I can do to get some level of functionality, I really don't mind buying another hard drive because there cheap but I don't want to loose my oem windows license . Any help would be appreciated and I'll be monitoring the thread like a snake.
Specs
SanDisk Ssd 256 gb
Seagate pipeline 2 tb hard drive
ASUS Z170-A mobo
Gskill ram 16 gv
Asus Rog 1070
Evga psu
Specs
SanDisk Ssd 256 gb
Seagate pipeline 2 tb hard drive
ASUS Z170-A mobo
Gskill ram 16 gv
Asus Rog 1070
Evga psu