Windows 10 updates cause 100%disc usage

Bozzmer · September 14, 2020

Hey guys,

So.two days ago my system updated to the latest version of windows, everything was great and worked flawlessly until I did a system restart. Afterwards when windows booted back up the entire machine was moving at a snails pace (if not slower), was finally able to launch task manager and saw that my system drive was pinned at 100% usage. Now I have had this issue before back in June, eventually the computer chokes itself out and automatically restarts and enters into repair, this is where the really concerning issue comes in. After the system begins to repair it will crash a few time eventually rewarding my with a blank screen that says: "blinitializelibrary failed 0xc00000bb." The only solution I employed in June was to rebuild the boot sequence manually, and eventually windows was able to repair itself (at the loss of all my installed apps mind you [thankfully I keep all my important information backed up in one drive]) and the problem went away, I also noticed that windows did not attempt to reinstall the June update. This time when I first noticed the issue I had windows do a repair and that did not solve the issue. After that failed I tried to simply un-install the update, this resulted in the computer "timing out" and crashing every time it finished the process. I eventually gave up and just decided to go ahead and do a clean install of windows using a boot media. That worked flawlessly and aside from having to reinstall apps everything was back to normal. Fast forward to this morning and windows has decided to update itself and I found my computer powered off, as I turned it on I was once again greeted by that oh so pleasant chugg on the system drive. Low and behold after logging in task manager once again informed me the drive was maxed out. I did the usual steps and first ran a Defrag which yielded no results. After that failed I decided to go ahead and have windows launch advanced startup, before it did that I opened my motherboard bios to see if anything was out of whack, to my pleasure nothing was abnormal. I then proceeded to the boot up and have had windows un-install the update rather than repair only to have windows boot back up and tell me the update was un-installed when in fact it was not, and the drive is once more pinned to 100. The next thing on my list is to launch corsair's ssd tool and update the motherboard bios and any hardware that needs it. Do you guys have any suggestions? Aside from switching to Linux.

I have several other systems that update to the latest version of windows with no issue, it is only ever this PC, why is that?

I am running a AMD Ryzen 7 3000 series, paired with a gigabyte mini ITX board and a 2tb corsair NVME drive that is both my main storage and system drive (is is also my only drive).

UPDATE: installed Corsair's SSD Toolbox and had it update the drive firmware, was greeted by a message explaining that the firmware was already up to date, but now the drive is suddenly functioning normally will let you know if anything changes.