Disk usage at 100%

[flagz]

I am trying to fix a 5 year old laptop with 100% disk usage on the hardrive and have tried many solutions and a full factory recet but nothing seems to work , could i fix this or should i just by a new ssd or harddrive (both works).

 i also need help getting drivers for the cpu  because ASUS have been blocking me from downloading them from intel and they down hawe any recent drivers on theire page , how do i fix this.

Thanks for any help.

[WhitetailAni]

4 minutes ago, flagz said:

i also need help getting drivers for the cpu

Your CPU does not need drivers.

4 minutes ago, flagz said:

I am trying to fix a 5 year old laptop with 100% disk usage on the hardrive and have tried many solutions and a full factory recet but nothing seems to work , could i fix this or should i just by a new ssd or harddrive (both works).

Is Windows attempting to update in the background? That can cause high disk usage.

[Elijah Kamski]

Hey there,

It seems like your drive is being used as the main C drive, so where the main installation of Windows is?

I'd suggest just going with a new SSD in this case, as it's much faster, and using the hard drive as a external storage solution, if you could maybe hook it up on a dekstop, or maybe even get those devices which allow you to use your HDD or SSD as an external storage, basically an adapter. With this as well, the SSD will also be new, so you won't have to worry about a possible drive failure for the next couple of years, unlike your already 5 year old SSD.

In terms of the intel CPU thing, you were using their Driver and Support Assistent?

Have you tried using different browsers, disabling AVs and just making sure you don't have things such as AdBlock or Privacy Badger running on the browser which may block the driver downloads?

>> Follow up from @FakeKGB's comment
I do agree that maybe it could be Windows downloading updates in the background. This happens a lot sadly.

[flagz]

Thanks for the information disabling the adblocker seems to work and i will be buying a ssd soon 

Thanks you for your information.

[cmndr]

1. Applications these days are increasingly assuming you have an SSD. Even windows. Upgrading to an SSD will help. Even doing something skin to setting up a cache ($10ish optane stick off ebay and then some caching software

2. Ensure there isn't anything malicious on the system (spyware, adware, monitoring, etc.)

[Kisai]

59 minutes ago, flagz said:

I am trying to fix a 5 year old laptop with 100% disk usage on the hardrive and have tried many solutions and a full factory recet but nothing seems to work , could i fix this or should i just by a new ssd or harddrive (both works).

 i also need help getting drivers for the cpu  because ASUS have been blocking me from downloading them from intel and they down hawe any recent drivers on theire page , how do i fix this.

Thanks for any help.

Two possibilities, if you mean 100% disk access utilization and not 100% capacity used:

a) Chipset drivers not installed

b) Insufficient memory and it's paging hard.

 

And if you meant 100% capacity

a) A SSD at 100% capacity will die quickly, and re-imaging it might get you one more use out of it before it dies completely.

b) Onedrive, dropbox, etc keep copies of your cloud stuff on your drive, and will fill the drive by default.

[IPD]

This happens all the time on work PC's that don't have enough RAM.  Disk is in operation for V-RAM.

[LogicalDrm]

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