Inspiron 546 on Win10 has 100% disk usage

Inspiron 546 my son has been upgraded to Win10 early on after that that he was released.  It was fine for a long time.  Now, the computer takes at least 20 minutes to boot and it is almost impossible to do anything about it.  I don't think that it's an infection because he's not really using it for the Internet.

The use of the hard drive was 100% a few months ago so I cleaned the disk and reinstalled.  It was fine for the last few month, but now it's happening again.

I tried a few suggestions around to disable Windows Search, prefetch and MSI.  However, the computer just wants to turn the HDD without doing great thing else.

I'm trying to move the data to a different hard drive to see if that helps.

Suggestions more?

I think that the problem is indeed a bad hard drive.  Windows said there is no problem with the drive it runs chkdsk /f /r (directed by linux) came with a lot of errors.

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