Asus Laptop Still Slow After Windows Reinstall

Hi,

Over the last few months my Windows 7 ASUS X53E has been getting slower and slower. So the other day I finally got round to using the recovery disk to do a clean wipe of the hard drive and re install Windows. I did this about 18 months ago when I was experiencing the same performance problems and it was as good as new afterwards. However, this time it is just as slow as before. I have given it a few days to see if anything improved after I had installed all of the updates (which took about a total of 12 hours to download and install).

I have read in various places that this could be because of the Hard Drive being on it's last legs, but I have only owned this laptop for 2 and a half years and have never filled any more than a quarter of the 750gb.

Does anyone have any suggestions of ways to speed up my computer to the speed you would expect it to be at when doing a complete wipe of the hard drive?

I would agree with you. The only problem being that SSD is a lot more expensive. So for me to replace the 750gb I currently have would be a huge amount of money. So what sort of size would you recommend for me? I use my laptop mainly for general use and occasionally editing and sorting out photos. I use my external hard drive for storing everything other than programs.