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Issue resolved itself, no idea how or even why :S

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Have you tried restaarting ? See what is using the disk by opening the resource manager

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Hey @evilHamsterzZz

 

Something is taking up usage of the hard drive. In the Task manager for monitoring the HDD usage, is there a list of what applications are using the hard drive usage?

 

You might be able to find out what process is causing it 

 

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do you use steam? Usually updates from steam make your HDD go nuts for a little bit lol

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I do use Steam, but it was already updated when my HDD was going nuts

 

huh, strange! that's usually when my hard drive goes nuts. If it happens again, keep a close eye and see what processes are running. I think a good approx way to determine what your hard drive is doing at 100% is what process is using a "unusual" amount of CPU usage in task manager.

 

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It seems to be a bug with Windows 8. It might go away for a while, but it will come back. I was hoping 8.1 would fix this, but the update did nothing. Any attempt at fixing it has been futile and contacting competent Microsoft employees is impossible. Unless we make a massive deal out of it and pressure MS to actually look into this, it will probably stay like forever.

Sorry I just had to :D

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huh, strange! that's usually when my hard drive goes nuts. If it happens again, keep a close eye and see what processes are running. I think a good approx way to determine what your hard drive is doing at 100% is what process is using a "unusual" amount of CPU usage in task manager.

 

Elven

Thanks for the suggestion! :D

 

 

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Thanks for the suggestion!  :D

 

No problem!  :D  I hope the problem is solved!

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