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Getting a second OS on that drive is doable, but I mean, I find it a headache sometimes, not sure about other people. But if you've got a spare flash drive, you can live boot into some free distro to run some tests.
But, sorry, no idea what the root cause of it might be. Last time I saw something like this was when I had a Windows 8 laptop that got an update to Windows 10 and I got hit with a rare bug that apparently only occurred in some Windows 8 laptops that updated to Windows 10 where my boot drive (an HDD) would be constantly at 100% read/write without actually reading or writing anything. But it was sure trying to. There were about seven potential solutions for that and none of them worked for me. I ended up just mostly ditching the laptop as it had other issues as well, like a failing WiFi adapter somehow.
That 100% disk usage problem was definitely not rare. I had this issue with almost everything Windows 10 computer using an HDD as the system drive.