Disk Usage 100%

[RyanAllenT]

Hello internet, so I bought my gaming computer roughly one year ago, I built it myself. I'll list specs at the end, however, I'm in extreme need of some help with my disk usage problem.   My computer boots to my desktop then immediately goes straight to 100% disk usage and under task manger it shows absolutely nothing using it. It's been like this know for awhile now about 6 months.  I've tried all of the internet tricks that I felt comfortable trying, such as disabling super-fetch, which I did and it still does it, so now I'm consulting online help.  Please enlighten me with the knowledge to figure this out. I have wiped my computer completely clean once before to attempt to fix it, which it did for about a month and then it returned.

 

Computer Specs

i3-6100 3.7Ghz

8GB  DDR4 Ram

MSI R9 380 4GB

1TB Western Digital HD

550  80 Bronze Plus Gold PSU

[ARikozuM]

Check for malware and viruses.

Check all of your motherboard drivers and reinstall if you have to.

Run a chkdsk from CMD. 

[And check SMART data as well.]

[The_Protagonist]

I have the exact same issue. I've read somewhere that its just a reading error and not actually using 100% of your Disk.

 

Mine still fluctuates between 20 - 80 from time to time but never inhibited the use of the PC. Still running games without any issue and even downloads aren't affected.

 

Are you having any performance issues?

[vaiwalker]

disabled and stopped the windows search service, that seemed to work for me

[BryL]

Open Run Box, Win key +R or right click start button select run> type services.msc and hit enter

look for superfetch , right click and hit stop then right click again select properties, change the startup type to disabled.

Same goes with windows search.

Make sure you properly set paging file.