Hard Drive always 100%

[Kilos1983]

Ever since yesterday, my hard drive has been nearly always at 100% when doing anything. The hard drive affected is my D drive. If I open up a game like Warzone my d drive will go up to 100% usage, but if I close out of it, it will stay at 100% but go to another program, and it just keeps jumping programs. Any ideas to how to fix it?

[Moonzy]

5 minutes ago, Kilos1983 said:

Any ideas to how to fix it?

use crystal disk info (not mark) to check disk health

[Tr1ggerfish1]

This has been quite a thing for years and it could be one of a few different things.
You might want to try to disable Superfetch and or Windows search service as these are the things that solved this exact same issue on my old laptop in the past.

 

[Kilos1983]

18 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

use crystal disk info (not mark) to check disk health

[Moonzy]

2 minutes ago, Kilos1983 said:

 your quote is gone  

at least we know it's not a dying drive

 

as for other ideas, not too sure on my end.

[Electronics Wizardy]

What does resource monitor show is using the disk io(what files are being read and written?)

[Kilos1983]

On 9/5/2020 at 9:40 PM, Electronics Wizardy said:

What does resource monitor show is using the disk io(what files are being read and written?)

Sorry for the late response, it's reading and writing into Opera, but if I close that it goes to System.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Kilos1983 said:

Sorry for the late response, it's reading and writing into Opera, but if I close that it goes to System.

Probably a broser cache and the os building the ram cache.

 

Seems pretty normal for windows on a hdd, you can see if usage drops when idle, but a ssd is the real solution.

[Comixbooks]

I have this same problem with these 6tb Hitachi helium drives. I  have no idea to fix it you can disable the drives but if you have a linked program like Steam trying to access it it will grind. You can disable the drive under power management. Superfetch is now called Sysmain its the same thing. If you use the HDD as a storage drive with no linked applications it shouldn't grind 100 percent.

 

I had to go back to my 3TB HDD drives because I couldn't fix it think its  a Win 10 problem more than anything. I use SSD drives wish I had some large capacity ones.