Windows 10 100% Disk Usage...WTF?

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Last pc i saw had an issue it was the above.
 
Serene said:
Morning peoples,

My son's PC shows 100% disk usage although on Task Manager all the shows 0/mb.
I have read about the "fixes" but I did a fresh install in January.
Apps takes ages to open. I'm starting to think this is the culprit for his blackscreen/audio stutter freeze sometimes.


Just wanted to know what can cause this?
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Are you viewing task manager as an admin? That will show all processes running on the machine, not just the ones relative to the logged on profile.

Otherwise, like has been said, fire up resource monitor
 
Happens on my new Acer laptop with standard 1TB hard drive sometimes too. Putting in more RAM helped and switching to SSD soon as well.

Please give me Win 7 back. :cautious:
 
You just can't run Win 10 without a SSD. If you do you are going to see 100% disk usage for any windows process, especially updates and such, regardless of how powerful your cpu and ram is.
 
This is the most bizarre thread. Disk usage = Capacity related. So your hard drive is most likely full and under the task manager it's showing the current throughput of the drive or utilisation of the disk which unless you're reading/writing to the drive will generally be low.
 
quovadis said:
This is the most bizarre thread. Disk usage = Capacity related. So your hard drive is most likely full and under the task manager it's showing the current throughput of the drive or utilisation of the disk which unless you're reading/writing to the drive will generally be low.
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We're referring to some process(es) hammering the drive and causing the current utilisation in task manager to be pegged at 100% for minutes at a time.

Capacity usage, at least in my case, is still very low.
 
quovadis said:
This is the most bizarre thread. Disk usage = Capacity related. So your hard drive is most likely full and under the task manager it's showing the current throughput of the drive or utilisation of the disk which unless you're reading/writing to the drive will generally be low.
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Sir

Drugs are bad mmkay?
 
quovadis said:
This is the most bizarre thread. Disk usage = Capacity related. So your hard drive is most likely full and under the task manager it's showing the current throughput of the drive or utilisation of the disk which unless you're reading/writing to the drive will generally be low.
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HDD is WD 1tb Green Drive.
Still has 650gb free space left
 
cyberghost47 said:
You just can't run Win 10 without a SSD. If you do you are going to see 100% disk usage for any windows process, especially updates and such, regardless of how powerful your cpu and ram is.
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Running my PC also on WD Green 1Tb Hdd and I'm not experience any problems.
I hear you on the cpu and ram but meaning my fresh install was done this past saturday with new barebones kit.

So ja I'm baffled...
 
Serene said:
Running my PC also on WD Green 1Tb Hdd and I'm not experience any problems.
I hear you on the cpu and ram but meaning my fresh install was done this past saturday with new barebones kit.

So ja I'm baffled...
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Well you can try reinstalling the controller drivers, but yeah if I had a dollar for the amount of times I'm seeing this issue with laptop HDD's and Win10 :/
 
Bobbin said:
I get this issue on all new Dell machines with the standard 1TB Hard Drives. There is a serious unnoticed issue here in the general IT community. These 1TB drives with Win10 are a dogshit combo and being sold with almost every mid-low range laptop in public. I see it so regularly yet no one seems to be talking about it. Many older laptops that performed well initially with the 1TB drivers are also increasingly losing performance not attributable to normal Windows rot and so on.

Subsequently I never sell a laptop that does not have an SSD anymore. I refuse to support them. If it comes with a standard HDD I recommend aftermarket SSD before I touch it. I regularly clone HDD's to SSD's to help out old PC's too nowadays. An HDD as secondary drive is fine though as long as OS on primary drive is SSD.

What has actually caused this problem remains to be seen. Until we know the cause, stay away from these new HDD's. I have heard some people having success reinstalling controller drivers but no luck on my side on the few I've tried.
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thanks for the update. yes you are spot on, its a 1tb drive.
its not a lekker feeling when u just bout a new laptop, and now you have to pay for an ssd. i dont even know if my laptop can take 2 hard drives.
 
Bobbin said:
Well you can try reinstalling the controller drivers, but yeah if I had a dollar for the amount of times I'm seeing this issue with laptop HDD's and Win10 :/
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my problem is teh setup time. to now add in a new drive is easy, but to copy and re setup the pc is a nightmare. thats one of the reasons i pulled 2 years longer on my old pc.
 
cool_gi said:
thanks for the update. yes you are spot on, its a 1tb drive.
its not a lekker feeling when u just bout a new laptop, and now you have to pay for an ssd. i dont even know if my laptop can take 2 hard drives.
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Yeah, it's frustrating. Especially when you would rather take an SSD in the first place instead of have a mechanical drive forced on you. Try and see if yours has an M.2 slot, then you can still keep the 1TB for extra storage. That's what I'm about to do.
 
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