Disk Usage Stuck At 100%

[★ Coups ★]

I'm having a problem where my Hard Drive is stuck at 100%, and I've tried everything to resolve it. 

 

 

 

 

Help please! Programs are really slow and crashes all the time 

[Electronics Wizardy]

System specs.

 

Let it idle for a hour or two. 

[AresKrieger]

It could be a virus or a system software error, did you get an update right before this happened or install new software?

[★ Coups ★]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

System specs.

 

Let it idle for a hour or two. 

CPU - i7-4790k | CPU Cooler - Cryorig A40 | Motherboard -  MSI Z97 MicroATX | RAM - Corsair Vengeance (2x8GB) 2400Mhz | Graphics Card - MSI GTX 970 | Power Supply - Corsair CS750M | Storage - General 1TB HDD | Case - Fractal Design ARC mini R2 | Colour Theme - Red & Black

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Operating System - Windows 10 Pro | Peripherals - Corsair RGB Mechanical K70 Keyboard/Corsair M65 Mouse

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, ★ Coups ★ said:

CPU - i7-4790k | CPU Cooler - Cryorig A40 | Motherboard -  MSI Z97 MicroATX | RAM - Corsair Vengeance (2x8GB) 2400Mhz | Graphics Card - MSI GTX 970 | Power Supply - Corsair CS750M | Storage - General 1TB HDD | Case - Fractal Design ARC mini R2 | Colour Theme - Red & Black

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Operating System - Windows 10 Pro | Peripherals - Corsair RGB Mechanical K70 Keyboard/Corsair M65 Mouse

Run a defrag. Get a ssd if you can.

[xgn]

Maybe the hard drive is failing? One of mine just died last week

Try to repair sectors and broken files.

[★ Coups ★]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Run a defrag. Get a ssd if you can.

How do I do a defrag?

1 minute ago, AresKrieger said:

It could be a virus or a system software error, did you get an update right before this happened or install new software?

Geforce Experience and Flash Player updated before it started

 

1 minute ago, xgn said:

Maybe the hard drive is failing? One of mine just died last week

Try to repair sectors and broken files.

I dont think its failing yet. 

[AresKrieger]

1 minute ago, ★ Coups ★ said:

How do I do a defrag?

Geforce Experience and Flash Player updated before it started

 

I dont think its failing yet. 

Can you activate system restore or is it too far gone to actually start up a program

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, ★ Coups ★ said:

How do I do a defrag?

Geforce Experience and Flash Player updated before it started

 

I dont think its failing yet. 

Seach defrag. It should be in there

 

 

Download crystal disk info and see if it reports errors.

 

http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html

[glitchmaster0001]

let the PC idle for and hour and come back to it. maybe its trying to download windows updates or something. then restart PC and see if it still keeps sitting at 100 percent, or it could be your HDD is too slow and old, but then again in one of my old ass PCs i have a maxtor drive and that doesnt sit at 100% for more than 5 minutes but thats only when its running updates. 

[xgn]

1 minute ago, glitchmaster0001 said:

let the PC idle for and hour and come back to it. maybe its trying to download windows updates or something. then restart PC and see if it still keeps sitting at 100 percent, or it could be your HDD is too slow and old, but then again in one of my old ass PCs i have a maxtor drive and that doesnt sit at 100% for more than 5 minutes but thats only when its running updates. 

Have you seen the speeds? even a old 5400rpm drive should 20mb/s  or more.

[glitchmaster0001]

3 minutes ago, xgn said:

Have you seen the speeds? even a old 5400rpm drive should 20mb/s  or more.

lol my old ass maxtor drive does 86 mb/s read and write

[xgn]

Just now, glitchmaster0001 said:

lol my old ass maxtor drive does 86 mb/s read and write

Yea and he get floppy disk speeds

[glitchmaster0001]

2 minutes ago, xgn said:

Yea and he get floppy disk speeds

nah thats probably just the OS accessing small files. its the same on my SSD too 

[xgn]

2 minutes ago, glitchmaster0001 said:

nah thats probably just the OS accessing small files. its the same on my SSD too 

This is what i get and it never throttle from normal use. Obviously write speeds are ok its just an example.

[glitchmaster0001]

1 minute ago, xgn said:

This is what i get and it never throttle from normal use.

then yea in that case i think the OP has to get a new HDD or spend the extra cash on a SSD. 

[★ Coups ★]

Good SSD and HDD suggestions ?

[AresKrieger]

6 minutes ago, ★ Coups ★ said:

Good SSD and HDD suggestions ?

WD 7200rpm blue or black drives, 850 line of samsung SSDs (they can be pricey though due to demand). Those are good options, blues are the better value btw.

[★ Coups ★]

27 minutes ago, AresKrieger said:

WD 7200rpm blue or black drives, 850 line of samsung SSDs (they can be pricey though due to demand). Those are good options, blues are the better value btw.

Thanks just ordered a 500GB Samsung 850. Hopefully when I move some stuff off this hard drive, it will speed it up a bit.