For the past 2 weeks my hard drive has been running all the time. I have not downloaded anything for over a month and do regular virus/adware/spyware scans. It also seems to be running pretty slow on startup. The only things I have on startup are all the drivers I need to have, nothing more. It takes the Networks (internet connection) 3 minutes to load everytime.
It has really effected my gaming too. After about an hour of playing any video game, the game starts lagging really bad and I have to restart. Only to do this in another hour.
Any help is appreciated.