All Windows versions past 7 uses 100% my HDD

Hello, I have an old Lenovo B560 bought in February 2011. I had Windows 7 installed and it used to work well until Windows 8 was released and i couldn't stop myself upgrade my OS. Since then i have troubles with my HDD usage which is 100% most of the time and if i go to task manager ->performance ->disk in use, the average response time is sometimes more than 10000ms. Thats causing serious problems of slowness on my PC. Since then, i've installed Windows 8.1 and WIndows 10. These days i've disabled the service called BITS and my HDD usage is about 10% most of the time, but there are still many situations when my PC become extremely slow due to high HDD usage. Today i've opened task manager and analyze all those proceses and i've discovered about 40 proceses that are related to services. Did any of you had this situation and managed to overpass it?
Sorry for my bad english.
Thanks in advice,
Andrei Savescu.

Welcome andrei
1. I am not sure about Windows 10 Technical Preview, I wouldn't recommend if you are using on your main machine.
2. Have you installed the latest BIOS and drivers for your B560 when running Windows 8.1? At times, Windows default driver may not work well on some hardware.
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