anyone know a fix?

[Kosta That Gamer]

My disk is always at 100% on my task mang, i have 250gb wd hardrive, a gtx 1050 TI and a I5 650 and it makes it literally almost impossible do do any tasks any actual fixes? i tried the "stop windows search" aproach, and everything else online

[Slottr]

Probably getting old and dying, slow as hell or a mix of the both. If all you're using is a 250gb hard drive, it might be worth to spend 40$ on a 250(or more)GB SSD

[Kosta That Gamer]

1 minute ago, Slottr said:

Probably getting old and dying, slow as hell or a mix of the both. If all you're using is a 250gb hard drive, it might be worth to spend 40$ on a 250(or more)GB SSD

yep ive been realizing that just looking for more of a temporary fix 

[airdeano]

welcome to the Linus Tech Tips forums!

 

sounds like you might have some illness or malware. something that works in the background accessing your drive isn't normal.

scan with malwarebytes, check the task manager for unwanted program access..

[Slottr]

9 minutes ago, Kosta That Gamer said:

yep ive been realizing that just looking for more of a temporary fix 

I'd probably just start by disabling any unused background programs and uninstalling all programs that you don't use. 

 

Do you have any anti virus software? Has it detected anything?

[Bananasplit_00]

Could be malware, could just be windows 10 being windows 10. If it's an old disk then I'm going to say the latter option, I have experienced that myself when using older harddrives

[nick name]

You can try disabling superfetch. 

 

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/what-is-superfetch/

[RaiderzNation]

It sounds like you have a lot of programs running in the background. Check taskmgr and delete or stop programs that are using the disk. If you want to spend around 75 dollars you can get a 500GB Samsung 860 Evo. It runs way faster than an HDD. I built somebody a computer a week or so ago and put the 860 in it. They love it compared to their slow HDD in their old build.

[darknightbacca]

Look on the task manager to see what is actually using up all that disk and do a bunch of smart tests to see if anything comes up, it's unlikely but it could be the sata cable causing that issue they do tend to do odd things when they go bad.