Disk at 100% Possible Cache issue?

[TheGhzGuy]

Hello all! 

My mom has a 5 year old laptop with an Ivy Bridge era i5, a SATA II, 1 TB Hard Drive, and Windows 10. Recently, the laptop has frozen up for 10 minutes at a time, work for half a minute, then lock up again. Today I found that the disk seemed to not be transferring any data, at all. My dad is assuming there is something wrong with the amount of space allocated to the cache storage, which gets flooded, then it freezes. That's his guess, I have no idea. I ran a PassMark Disk Check and everything came out clean, so I'm at a loss. 

 

Thanks for the help!

[danomicar]

Time to reformat or get a new drive. Had a similar issue with my laptop and the best fix was just to back up what i could and go and buy an SSD

[MoonlightSylv]

Backup and reinstall Windows, fixed it for me.

[VulcanAndroid]

Try to run a chkdsk /r on the hdd before anything else. Sometimes it will help. Otherwise, I agree with the others. New HDD time.