100% disk usage please help!

[Redjo]

Guys currently i am on another place with my Laptop, but i experiencing serious disk problems and i need your help! 

 

So basically i have to find a way to fix random 100% spikes with my HDD without real usage. Whenever it happens the Laptop goes extremly slow and sometimes even frezes completely for an amount of time (anywhere between 10 seconds to over 1 minute) until it just kinda fixes itself and stops being on 100%.

 

On the Task Manager HDD display shows that sometimes its just 100% spike for a second or few  and sometimes it just continues up to 1-2minute and lower itself after to 0-6%. 

 

Is there any way to fix this? 

[CookieMaster]

In all of my experiences that is because either the disk is old or it is dying. 

 

This has been on windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10.

[Redjo]

3 minutes ago, Thread212 said:

Are u using windows 10? because a lot of people have been encountered that problem.
Try use resource Monitor and find the process that cause ur HDD to use its full Load.

I am using Windows 8 on my Laptop. I didn't feel the need of upgrading it because i rarely use it. 

[Redjo]

21 minutes ago, Thread212 said:

 

Try that first.. see it its can fix ur problem

I just had 1min freeze. 

System went to over 2 000 000 read [B/sec] 

After it somehow fix itself and went down really low, then i opened snipping tool and it start using 600 000 read [B/sec] then fix itself. League of Legends client was using 200 000 or something and chrome 100 000 now everything is beetween 0 and 3000  and sometimes spikes to 15 000 to 30 000. 

 

Edit: Maybe i should record video with my Phone tommorow, so you see by your own. Different things cause the spikes and freezes not always the same. 

 

I am unavailable to record at the moment. 

[JINKAZAMA | kickback.com]

I am having the same problem and it doesn't go away even when I change os from win 10 to 8.1 ....

I encountered this issue when my pc crashed and a BSOD showed up saying unmountable harddisk I had to reformat the harddisk which didn't help and when it finally booted I had stuck with this 100 % disk usage ...no programmes using more than 0.1 mb of harddisk and yet 100% usage ....disk monitor didn't show any apps using it till that high plus i tried al, the fixes on internet like disabling winsearch, superfetch and BITS BUT NO SOLUTION.....at last I wanted to reformatt it again and now it says the selected harrdisk space cant be used .., the volume is offline , I tried diskpart but it returns the error could not online the selected volume......haven't found any solution yet .....can anyone help....I use an i5 ,8gb ram,1tb hdd,

[Redjo]

bumb

 

[kirashi]

Replace the HDD with an SSD and your problem will go away. Worked for 5 years as a technician in a retail store.

When Windows 8 came out, all laptops in our store utilized 100% of the disk whenever system services accessed the HDD.

Upgrading customers [who were willing to pay] to SSDs resolved the problems completely.

 

This issue started with Windows 8 due to changes they made to maintenance and update processes, and the Start Menu.

Upgrading to an SSD in a laptop will solve the issue 95% of the time, since most laptop drives have lower access times, even if they're 7200rpm drives.

Most laptops use cheaper, slower 5400rpm drives however. Even $1500 gaming laptops use them, because corporate profit margins.

[CookieMaster]

Before you read what I have to say, what hard drive do you have in your laptop and how old is it?

 

 

Upgrading won't fix your issue.

 

Your problem is most likely one of the following

 

1. Failing hard drive

2. Hard drive is old and number 1 is also the issue

3. Hard drive speeds are slow (5400 rpm)

4. Some program is taking a lot of disk usage.

5. Your hard drive is not using sata 3 (It is using sata 2, this wouldn't cause 100% usage, slower speeds though)

6. Hard drive is complete crap

 

If you want to fix your problem:

1. Get an SSD or SSHD

2. Get an Up to date hard drive with at least 7200 rpm (Western Digital <- I would highly recommend spend an extra $10 on an SSHD if you this route

3. Find out what is using your disk (It might be a virus scan program) Or windows may be using a large usage.

 

Source: Years of experience with this same issue you are having with dozens of computers on all different versions of windows. 

 

Edit: your laptop may not have enough ram, and your laptop is using the hard drive for another source. (Virtual memory) 

 

 

Edited October 17, 2016 by CookieMaster
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[JINKAZAMA | kickback.com]

Guys! i didn't have this problem with my harddrive for a whole year ...its just recently after the bsod that it's behaving this way and I have no AV installed and now please tell me what to do when diskpart says could not online the volume