Extremely slow scans and difficulty accessing drives

[sinan aiman]

I might have malware/other hdd issues that rendered multiple files corrupted. the problem is i cant scan the drives at all cause the scan is super slow. full scan/custom scan takes up to 12+ hours and trying to access these drives are incredibly taxing for my pc which shouldnt be the case at all. i ran chkdsk x: /f /r and sfc /scannow and defrag-ed the drives as well but to no avail. i dont need to recover most of the files but i cant even access the folders to manually delete them. also my hdd seems to be at 50%+ usage as soon as i scan it and my cpu seems to spike upwards of 90% everytime i

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