My h8-1214 is EXTREMELY slow. Hard drive seems to be guilty. Install an SSD?

How do you install a hard drive that is faster than the stock drive 5600 rpm on this machine?  It is so SLOW to start and the Sims 3 loading lasts 30 minutes.  My last machine (HP 4 years) was actually FASTER than this new machine. (as is my laptop (H7) 5 year old and 3 years Pavilion HPE 2101 my wife).    Windows Performance Index shows 7.3 to 7.5 - 7, 4-7, 4-5, 9 (the hard drive)... Obviously, I can't replace the drive since it's the startup disk and contains the restore information, but I can install another (faster) drive and install games and data to load on this subject?  I upgraded the video card (obviously) with the appropriate PSU 700 watt and looked up his score, but need help for this.

Well, I talked to my brother (MS Certified tech with about three degrees of the computer) and he walked me through a few settings.  It turns out the USB boot all that was the culprit.  Disable it decreased my boot time less than a minute as the seat of the machine.  So happy that I called him first before you undo everything.  He called for him before you post here, of course.

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