Thank you for your response. I did try those things without success. However, I found a solution on another site that seems to have resolved the HD issue. The instructions were. "Go to: Control Panel/Troubleshooting/System and Security
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Brand new here. I have a complex problem. I started having trouble with my text to speech program playing in Win 8.1 - as the audio started breaking up when played. When trying to resolve this I noticed that task manager showed the HD was running at near 100% most of the time. I suspected that...