100% disk usage [Help me]

[Polki]

Hey guys,

 

So I got this laptop a while ago and it has had the 100% disk load error since purchase (approx 9 months). I have tried everything thing I can find online to fix it with no success. I'm not sure what else to do but it is has been really bugging me lately as it is a fairly good laptop but feels like a junkyard laptop.

 

Any help is appreciated, thanks guys.

[Guest]

If there is an actual problem (which isn't that clear to me) you should be able to send it back for warranty. (got no clue about what your error is saying)

[Ashleyyyy]

disk space used? just delete some crap you don't need. problem solved.

 

 

[userzero]

If it has been happening for 9 months, presumably you have run a hard disk check and looked at everything here https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/fix-100-disk-usage-in-task-manager-improve-pc-performance-on-windows-10/

[Sauron]

4 minutes ago, userzero said:

If it has been happening for 9 months, presumably you have run a hard disk check and looked at everything here https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/fix-100-disk-usage-in-task-manager-improve-pc-performance-on-windows-10/

That is disk load, it has nothing to do with available space.

13 minutes ago, Polki said:

Hey guys,

 

So I got this laptop a while ago and it has had the 100% disk space error since purchase (approx 9 months). I have tried everything thing I can find online to fix it with no success. I'm not sure what else to do but it is has been really bugging me lately as it is a fairly good laptop but feels like a junkyard laptop.

 

Any help is appreciated, thanks guys.

What is the exact model of your laptop? Can you post a screenshot of your "my computer" folder?

 

Does this error prevent you from doing anything, or is it just annoying?

[MrDrWho13]

If you mean it's showing 100% disk usage in task manager all the time, it's probably designed to. Most laptop manufacturers put really slow HDDs into their laptops, you can fix it by replacing the drive with an SSD.

[userzero]

18 minutes ago, Sauron said:

That is disk load, it has nothing to do with available space.

What is the exact model of your laptop? Can you post a screenshot of your "my computer" folder?

 

Oh my bad I read it wrong. Not seen this before.. I would have taken it back straight away instead of 9 months later. Just call the manufacturer and check the warranty is still valid and have it fixed/replaced.

[LogicalDrm]

Does every possible fix include clean install/factory default of OS?

[iHDCool]

How much RAM you got? That's usually a problem. 

[Tiberiusisgame]

Can you post a screenshot of your Resource Monitor? Right-click on the taskbar to launch it. Then click on Performance, go to Open Resource Monitor at the very bottom, click on the Disk tab. What's reading or writing to hard?

 

 

[Polki]

7 hours ago, iHDCool said:

How much RAM you got? That's usually a problem. 

I believe it's 4gb but the ram isn't at 100% usage like the disk is.

[Polki]

7 hours ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

Does every possible fix include clean install/factory default of OS?

Indeed I have...

[Polki]

8 hours ago, userzero said:

Oh my bad I read it wrong. Not seen this before.. I would have taken it back straight away instead of 9 months later. Just call the manufacturer and check the warranty is still valid and have it fixed/replaced.

Going to try this today, cheers.

[Polki]

8 hours ago, MrDrWho13 said:

If you mean it's showing 100% disk usage in task manager all the time, it's probably designed to. Most laptop manufacturers put really slow HDDs into their laptops, you can fix it by replacing the drive with an SSD.

Don't understand why it would be designed to as it does it from idle and finds it super hard to open any programs in more than 5 minutes. This includes file explorer etc

 

[Polki]

8 hours ago, Sauron said:

That is disk load, it has nothing to do with available space.

What is the exact model of your laptop? Can you post a screenshot of your "my computer" folder?

 

Does this error prevent you from doing anything, or is it just annoying?

my apology I did, in fact, mean disk load. Attached is my specs and a screenshot of, my computer and task manager.

[Polki]

8 hours ago, userzero said:

If it has been happening for 9 months, presumably you have run a hard disk check and looked at everything here https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/fix-100-disk-usage-in-task-manager-improve-pc-performance-on-windows-10/

yeah I have tried all of those techniques with no luck

 

[userzero]

I thought you meant that! it's a really common issue! You often find when you look in your resource monitor (in task manager) that the disk load culprit is actually windows system files. It's caused by corruption to system files so firstly run a checkdisk repair (open a cmd prompt and type "chkdsk /f c:" without the quotations) it will then want to do a restart to commence scanning and will repair anything it finds hopefully. When Windows boots up again after go back into cmd and type "sfc /scannow" to scan your OS and repair any files. If it still does it then you can try a reinstall.

 

[iHDCool]

5 hours ago, userzero said:

I thought you meant that! it's a really common issue! You often find when you look in your resource monitor (in task manager) that the disk load culprit is actually windows system files. It's caused by corruption to system files so firstly run a checkdisk repair (open a cmd prompt and type "chkdsk /f c:" without the quotations) it will then want to do a restart to commence scanning and will repair anything it finds hopefully. When Windows boots up again after go back into cmd and type "sfc /scannow" to scan your OS and repair any files. If it still does it then you can try a reinstall.

 

Not always.. Sometimes it's because you lack the sufficent RAM. When I play specific games that require alot of loading, the disk usage goes to 100% because I'm out of memory. Not sure tho, it's either HDD or RAM imo. 

[userzero]

Well if it has done it since day one it is unlikely either of those things but we'll wait to hear from the OP I guess

[Lunaak]

Boyfriend's desktop has been doing the same for a while. Definitely seems like Windows processes hammering on boot. Causes the whole system to chug along and no amount of online remedies have yeilded results. 

 

His laptop starts the same but settles down after a minute or two. He doesn't even bother using the desktop anymore as it never seems to settle down anymore. Just stays at 100%.