HELP PLEASE

[niff]

Hey guys my disk space is running at 100% and i have diabled superfetch and windows search and its still 100% please help
 

[Kickflapper]

buy cheap storage drive pcpartpicker

 

[niff]

you mean another hard drive

 

[Little Bear]

Either clean your drive of unneeded material, or buy this: https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Cache-Desktop-Drive-WD10EZEX/dp/B0088PUEPK

[niff]

but then what happens to all my stuff on my hardrive

[Little Bear]

4 minutes ago, niff said:

but then what happens to all my stuff on my hardrive

Do you have any other SATA connectors on your board?

[niff]

yeah

 

[Hayabusa1989]

Are you on windows 10 ?

[niff]

yeah

[Hayabusa1989]

Hi,

 

Windows 10 has brain failure with alot of process's. 

Our Virus Protection at work uses 100% disk usage for ages when we first turn them on everyday. 

Is there any program listed as using the majority of the disk in task manager ? (Such as below )

[SLAYR]

1 hour ago, niff said:

please help

1) Defragment your hard drive.

2) Identify what program is reading/writing to the hdd and see if there is a wayto stop it.

3) Get a ssd to use as a boot drive, it will help with OS functioning faster, but the hdd will probabbly still hit 100% when you use it, but just not as much since the OS is the biggest program that uses the disk.

 

If anybody tells you formatting the hdd will help, don't, it wipes the drive for no gain at all in speed, in windows refreshing the OS does the same without losing your data.

[ZackBarletto]

I think the "100% Usage" you are seeing is something ridiculous like % of time disk accessed? Your OS may be accessing the disk 100% of the time, but may only use ,in Hayabusa1989's case, a total of like 4Mb/s.

 

To see for yourself, check the resource monitor or detailed performance view. And don't hate me if I'm wrong. lol

I work on many laptop computers with windows 10 on them. This raised my concern when every laptop I handle would show "100% disk usage".

If you pull up the resource monitor, or detailed performance view, you will see more then one metric for disk measurements.

If I recall correctly these new numbers show what was actually at 100%. and if i recall it was the time the disk is being accessed. So even simple OS tasks, for the time it is doing so, the disk would have been at 100. close to those numbers i remember seeing 20% actual disk usage, despite the task manager labeling that "100%" as disk usage.

 

Pretty obnoxious if you ask me.. Hope this helps...

 

Love to all the LTT team and community

[WkdPaul]

Moved to troubleshooting

[niff]

it says system is really high

 

[niff]

any ideas

[ZackBarletto]

I confirmed from my post earlier.

Click on the performance tab if the task manager

Click on the Disk graph to the left.

 

Now you should see Disk Access time, and Disk Transfer Rate.

The Access time always spikes to 100, while transfer rate never really does.

 

This is what is giving you the false sense that your disk is either dying, or peaking out at 5Mb/s.

That 100% measurement us simply the time the disk is being accessed. Which is funny because it either is or it is not....

 

0 to 100 real quick *pun*