Belarc Advisor shows it as a HDD.
The problem may be on the hdd itself. Whenever you delete something the computer does not erase anything from the hdd, it just marks that space to be recorded over. There could be some spaces that have been recorded over so many times that they are not viable to be recorded on anymore or there may be a virus or malware so virulent that it cannot be removed my normal antivirus. There is a software package called killdisk that will wipe the drive completely clean like it was before anything was put on it at the factory. It was developed by the Department of Defense because they used to have to destroy the hdd in case of a failure and it could not be repaired because of that. I used to work for Dell and we did tech support where we had to set up a drive to be incinerated like for the Internal Revenue Service. I have had it work a couple of times when I could not reformat because of a self replicating registry virus. After you wipe the disk clean you can reload the os on the disk using an ISO on a flash drive or DVD. I used the free version and it worked.
