100% Disk usage spikes ruining PC

[daiv]

Sorry. Post glitch.

 

Basically, My computer, about once a minute, will just freeze for 1-2 seconds, after this I go and check history on task manager, and it happens when my disk spikes to 100%. 

 

I have no other problems with ram, cooling, etc.

 

What is causing this?

 

I have a 5 year old Crucial M4 SSD. Is it just failing because its so old?

 

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[Billy_Mays]

2 minutes ago, daiv said:

Sorry. Post glitch.

 

Basically, My computer, about once a minute, will just freeze for 1-2 seconds, after this I go and check history on task manager, and it happens when my disk spikes to 100%. 

 

I have no other problems with ram, cooling, etc.

 

What is causing this?

 

I have a 5 year old Crucial M4 SSD. Is it just failing because its so old?

It might be the SSD I'm not too sure what it might be but wait till some else that has more experience than I do reply

[Mira Yurizaki]

You can check who's using the disk by going to Resource Manager (you can do so from Task Manager's Performance tab).

[Enderman]

How did you install windows?

If your OS is as old as your SSD is, then no wonder you're having issues.

[daiv]

3 minutes ago, Enderman said:

How did you install windows?

If your OS is as old as your SSD is, then no wonder you're having issues.

Not sure. I've build my PC of my dads old custom one. It started with windows 7 and I was built in 2012. I've never formatted my SSD or bought a new OS. I have upgraded to windows 10 for free though.

[daiv]

5 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

You can check who's using the disk by going to Resource Manager (you can do so from Task Manager's Performance tab).

Explorer.exe is taking up 119 million B/sec on writing. System is taking 118 mil B/sec on reading.

[Enderman]

2 minutes ago, daiv said:

Not sure. I've build my PC of my dads old custom one. It started with windows 7 and I was built in 2012. I've never formatted my SSD or bought a new OS. I have upgraded to windows 10 for free though.

Oh that's probably why.

The upgrade process is broken and will cause all kinds of issues over time, including disk usage spikes.

Do this and you won't have those problems again: https://www.howtogeek.com/224342/how-to-clean-install-windows-10/

You don't need to do anything with the windows key, just "do this later" every time it asks you to put in your key, it will automatically activate itself when you connect to the internet.

[daiv]

51 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Oh that's probably why.

The upgrade process is broken and will cause all kinds of issues over time, including disk usage spikes.

Do this and you won't have those problems again: https://www.howtogeek.com/224342/how-to-clean-install-windows-10/

You don't need to do anything with the windows key, just "do this later" every time it asks you to put in your key, it will automatically activate itself when you connect to the internet.

If i did option 2 (Going into windows and choosing to restore to factory settings), would there be any problems that would still lurk around?

 

It says "In addition, some people have reported that it won’t fix some system corruption issues, in which case you’d want to perform a real clean install using Option One above."

 

It should fix all my problems right?

[Enderman]

4 minutes ago, daiv said:

If i did option 2 (Going into windows and choosing to restore to factory settings), would there be any problems that would still lurk around?

 

It says "In addition, some people have reported that it won’t fix some system corruption issues, in which case you’d want to perform a real clean install using Option One above."

 

It should fix all my problems right?

No, you need to clean install.

[daiv]

Just now, Enderman said:

No, you need to clean install.

Oh okay. Thanks