Would this definitely solve the Problem?


Not if the problem were hardware related. Your symptoms sound like there could be physically damaged sectors on the hard drive, and the system tries and retries, sector by sector to write to them, eventually succeeding but taking a long time to do so.

If this is the case, then it may be only a matter of hours before your hard drive fails completely.

I would make a high priority of saving the songs in your player to another computer if you haven't done so.

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