Hard drive 100% usage problem

[jotnova]

I've been having trouble with my new computer. When I boot it up the disk will run at 90 - 100% for the first 10ish minutes before crawling back down to acceptable levels for the rest of the session. Not only that, but when I wake it from sleep the disk will run at 100% indefinitely, and I'm forced to reboot. When the disk is running at boot up, or after I wake it, the numbers in task manager don't add up, with it only reporting current usage of around 2 Mbps. I've already tried disabling a whole slew of windows features that people say cause the problem, as well as updating a few drivers and flashing my bios. I'm sick of this problem and I just want it to stop, so please help.

 

System specs:

• i5 - 6600K
• Z170A SLI PLUS
• 2 * 8Gb sticks of DDR4-2400
• Reference Geforce 970 
• A generic HDD that can be found here - 

  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=1Z4-002R-00010

 

Thanks.

 

 

Update: I have verified that no updates are taking place, and my system is not set to run chkdsk on boot up. Needless to say I would like to get this wrapped up a soon as possible, I ran chkdsk earlier and noticed that my disk grew 8kb of bad sector space because of the constant overusage. Please halp :P. 

[Guest]

Windows could be trying to update, try leaving it there for a while 

[jotnova]

1 minute ago, Ronnie76 said:

Windows could be trying to update, try leaving it there for a while 

At what point? Booting up?

[Guest]

3 hours ago, jotnova said:

At what point? Booting up?

at the desktop 

[Guest]

CHKDSK automatic start? Does seem to happen sometimes with some windows versions...

[jotnova]

1 minute ago, Dutch-stoner said:

CHKDSK automatic start? Does seem to happen sometimes with some windows versions...

Sorry, I'm not very savvy, could you elaborate?

 

[Electronics Wizardy]

6 minutes ago, jotnova said:

I've been having trouble with my new computer. When I boot it up the disk will run at 90 - 100% for the first 10ish minutes before crawling back down to acceptable levels for the rest of the session. Not only that, but when I wake it from sleep the disk will run at 100% indefinitely, and I'm forced to reboot. When the disk is running at boot up, or after I wake it, the numbers in task manager don't add up, with it only reporting current usage of around 2 Mbps. I've already tried disabling a whole slew of windows features that people say cause the problem, as well as updating a few drivers and flashing my bios. I'm sick of this problem and I just want it to stop, so please help.

 

System specs:

• i5 - 6600K
• Z170A SLI PLUS
• 2 * 8Gb sticks of DDR4-2400
• Reference Geforce 970 
• A generic HDD that can be found here - 

  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=1Z4-002R-00010

 

Thanks.

Its probably caching the hdd in ram. Don't worry about it. Its making your computer faster.

[jotnova]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Its probably caching the hdd in ram. Don't worry about it. Its making your computer faster.

And what about it locking up when I wake it up?

[Guest]

Google.com is such a nice website...

 

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/check-disk-runs-at-every-startup-windows

 

"The Check Disk Utility or Chkdsk.exe in Windows 10/8/7 and Windows Vista is used to check for errors in the disk media and in the file system. If you face problems ranging from blue screens to inability to open, save files or folders, you should run chkdsk.exe. Check Disk can run automatically, in the case of an abrupt shutdown or if it finds the file system to be ‘dirty’. There may be times, when you may find that this Check Disk Utility runs automatically every times your Windows starts. You may have scheduled its run, or your Windows may have decided to schedule its run. But instead of running just once, it continues to run every time your Windows computer boots."