100% Disk Usage

[Jownjown]

So when I checked my task manager, I saw this. 

 

Based on my everyday use, this is not normal and this is my first time seeing this. I tried to do my own research about it. All it says that it has some connections to BSOD and some malware. I tried to do a full scan with my Anti - Virus (Avast & Malwarebytes) but both results are okay. So what could be causing this issue? It doesn't affect the performance of my PC but I'm just worried because this might be something big.

 

Thank You in Advance!

[ProjectBox153]

How old are the parts in your machine?

[Jownjown]

Just now, Jamiec1130 said:

How old are the parts in your machine?

They are new. Bought them somewhere in July this current year.

[ProjectBox153]

Just now, Jownjown said:

They are new. Bought them somewhere in July this current year.

Does the HDD make any odd noises?

[Jownjown]

1 minute ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Does the HDD make any odd noises?

Not really, I can just hear them moving

[ProjectBox153]

Just now, Jownjown said:

Not really, I can just hear them moving

Perhaps something is running in the background. Try rebooting into safe mode and see if the disk does this as well.

[Jownjown]

7 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Perhaps something is running in the background. Try rebooting into safe mode and see if the disk does this as well.

Currently in safe mode, but It doesn't show the disk usage

 

[Jownjown]

Just now, Jownjown said:

Currently in safe mode, but It doesn't show the disk usage

 

but I can tell that its not on full load because the HDD lights are not flickering that fast

[vorticalbox]

1 minute ago, Jownjown said:

Currently in safe mode, but It doesn't show the disk usage

 

 

Then it is likely a windows service such as update or super fetch or malware, the former is much more likely.

[Jownjown]

1 minute ago, vorticalbox said:

Then it is likely a windows service such as update or super fetch or malware, the former is much more likely.

Should I be worrying about this?

 

[ProjectBox153]

Just now, Jownjown said:

Currently in safe mode, but It doesn't show the disk usage

 

 

Try a different hardware monitor, and also try running Crystal Disk Info to check the health of the drive.

[ProjectBox153]

If you can't hear the drive and the light isn't on non-stop, I wouldn't worry about it too much. Just still try Crystal Disk Info.

[vorticalbox]

Just now, Jownjown said:

Should I be worrying about this?

 

 

That depends on which conclusion it is. If it is as I suspect a windows service then there is nothing to be done.  If it is malware then your worry will relative to how much you care. It is almost definitely not malware, what malware would use 100% of anything alerting the user to its presence?

[Aytex]

This is prob due to a number of things but there are some ways you can prevent it

Fragment your HDD regularly 

Go to services.msc and disable BITS and Superfetch

[Jownjown]

5 minutes ago, vorticalbox said:

That depends on which conclusion it is. If it is as I suspect a windows service then there is nothing to be done.  If it is malware then your worry will relative to how much you care. It is almost definitely not malware, what malware would use 100% of anything alerting the user to its presence?

Well you have a point. But I really hope its just a Windows Service. In fact, my PC did finished installing updates earlier this morning. But its my fifth reboot of the PC with a huge time gap. I really hope.

[vorticalbox]

Just now, Jownjown said:

Well you have a point. But I really hope its just a Windows Service. In fact, my PC did finished installing updates earlier this morning. But its my fifth reboot of the PC with a huge time gap. I really hope.

 

Well your task man is showing a ~2MB/s which is nothing. I would just see if it goes away.

[Jownjown]

Anyways, thank you for all the replies, I'll just observe if it goes away. I still have to study for my finals tomorrow lol. 

Thank You all very much for your time. I really appreciate it. 

Regards,

[ProjectBox153]

Just now, Jownjown said:

Anyways, thank you for all the replies, I'll just observe if it goes away.

Thank You all very much for your time. I really appreciate it. 

Regards,

No problem. Let us know if anything else happens.

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

11 minutes ago, vorticalbox said:

That depends on which conclusion it is. If it is as I suspect a windows service then there is nothing to be done.  If it is malware then your worry will relative to how much you care. It is almost definitely not malware, what malware would use 100% of anything alerting the user to its presence?

Crypto Locker 

[Ryujin2003]

Avast isn't a legitimate antivirus program. You should download Norton and scan with that. I would also suggest downloading Spybot Search and Destroy and running that.

 

W10 does use a lot of hard drive resources, but one of the issues you could be having is start up programs. Safemode doesn't start up all of these programs.

[SuperTr00pr]

If you go to the Windows 10 subreddit you'll see this is a problem going on due to some recent update.  I have a year old PC doing the EXACT same thing.  

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/

[Jownjown]

5 hours ago, HurricaneIce said:

If you go to the Windows 10 subreddit you'll see this is a problem going on due to some recent update.  I have a year old PC doing the EXACT same thing.  

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/

So it's just a harmless bug? Lmao. It's kind of annoying. Microsoft should fix this. Fast.