Hi!

I have had a issue with my second HDD going SUPER slow, where it would read/write at around 50 BPS, or just not at all, and ultimately crash windows explorer. It happened once before, it kind of got fixed by itself after a few trial and errors with repairing disk through disk management. This was about a month or so ago. Just recently it has come back, and I want to try to find a more permanent solution to the problem. The times it seems to have come is after I've downloaded a file (been different kind of files), try to open it and windows explorer stops working. The OS on my pc is on the SDD, not the HDD, I only have some games/files on the HDD. It is properly connected inside, so if it is a hardware issue it must be the disk itself being bad. I use a bootleg Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, I use AVG (free VERSION) as anti-virus, and my pc SPECS are:

SSD: Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB 2.5" OEM
GPU: XFX Radeon R9 280X 3GB GDDR5
PSU: Cooler Master G750M, 750W PSU
MB:   ASUS M5A97 R2.0, Socket-AM3+
CPU: AMD FX-8320 Black Edition
RAM: CRUCIAL DDR3 BallistiX SPORT 1600MHz 8GB
HDD: SEAGATE Barracuda® 2TB

I've searched multiple times, and found similar issues, but not the same issue, and the fixes replied to in those issues have mostly been of no help.
If anyone has an answer, or know of a thread who could help, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!
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I use a bootleg Windows 7 Pro 64-bit