Disk @100%

[Izumi Reina]

So my computer has become very very slow up to 15mins of just trying to type in my pass and I've found the disk is always at 100% usage despite nothing actually taking any significant amount of data. Ideas to help? PC id basically unusable till it's fixed.

[blackadder]

run SMART or something in windows to check if the hard drive is dying also see if any programs like anti virus are running, they can sometimes pin a cpu/storage to 100. check for viruses aswell. 

[★ Coups ★]

I had the same problem. I defragged and optimised and it started working better again. 

 

[suchamoneypit]

on an HDD this will always happen for several minute after booting ( love you SSDs). Also, in windows, it sometimes will randomly start a virus scan, using your HDD, throttling you in pretty much everything else. Its extremely annoying, and you can't disable it. Happened to me all the time until I switched to an SSD, now its just too fast to matter.

 

As someone else said, defragment your HDD, that could help a little if it hasn't been recently.

[Izumi Reina]

2 minutes ago, suchamoneypit said:

on an HDD this will always happen for several minute after booting ( love you SSDs). Also, in windows, it sometimes will randomly start a virus scan, using your HDD, throttling you in pretty much everything else. Its extremely annoying, and you can disable it. Happened to me all the time until I switched to an SSD, now its just too fast to matter.

 

As someone else said, defragment your HDD, that could help a little if it hasn't been recently.

The thing is everything is to slow to the point where it would take 10-20mins to even get to the button to defrag let alone defrag.

[suchamoneypit]

2 minutes ago, Izumi Reina said:

The thing is everything is to slow to the point where it would take 10-20mins to even get to the button to defrag let alone defrag.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

If you don't try anything, it won't fix anything. Its either that, or you simply wipe the entire drive and hope it fixes it (and lose all your data).