Help with issue

[erolwes]

My computer is getting relatively old now with a fx6300,msi970gaming motherboard and a new 1060 8gb,though my case shows my hard drive as always active and sure enough I go into task manager and it’s pinned at 100% with dips to 0. That hard drive isn’t even full it’s at about 600gb out of 1tb why is that? it’s slowing down my computer and I’m getting annoyed with it, could anybody help with it?

[Crunchy Dragon]

3 minutes ago, erolwes said:

1060 8gb

I need me one of those.

 

That said, it might be a rare case of hard drive bottlenecking.

[erolwes]

Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

I need me one of those.

 

That said, it might be a rare case of hard drive bottlenecking.

I just realized that I put this under the wrong topic but it could be.

[Peter041098]

If you haven't already you could try defragment the drive, if it is trying to piece together big and fragmented files 

[kirashi]

10 minutes ago, erolwes said:

My computer is getting relatively old now with a fx6300,msi970gaming motherboard and a new 1060 8gb,though my case shows my hard drive as always active and sure enough I go into task manager and it’s pinned at 100% with dips to 0. That hard drive isn’t even full it’s at about 600gb out of 1tb why is that? it’s slowing down my computer and I’m getting annoyed with it, could anybody help with it?

Upgrade your boot drive to an SSD - bingo presto your 100% disk use problem will go away. I'm not saying this to be rude, but every computer running Windows 8 or MacOS 10.9 or higher needs an SSD or you're going to run into 100% disk use regularly whenever Windows or MacOS decides it's a good time to perform background maintenance and/or updates.

[Technomancer__]

you probably have a virus

do a scan with kaspersky pro and malwarebytes

[Cyracus]

try defragging your hard drive, usage is a matter of read/write so if it's at 100% it's doing one of those (or both) full time capacity doesn't become an issue until it's 90%+ full or the drive is going bad

[ProjectBox153]

Sounds like Windows 10. Is it a pre-built machine?

[xaeleep]

It could, as Jamiec1130 mentioned be Windows that's causing it. You could try disabling Windows Search/indexing but first I'd recommend running either chkdsk by typing in chkdsk C: into CMD, or a third part program like HDTune to scan for errors.

 

 

[erolwes]

On 12/30/2017 at 4:28 PM, Jamiec1130 said:

Sounds like Windows 10. Is it a pre-built machine?

 No it isn’t, I built it about 3 years ago with graphics card upgrades and storage later 

[H4WKEN]

It's a very common problem on the Windows 10 OS. Search for notifications in the windows search menu and disable all of them. I would suggest looking for the "Destroy Windows 10 Spying" tool to remove some of the nonsense that's on there.