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    Icon5 Hard drive always at 100%

    Hello,

    Since one or two days, my hard drive is at a constant 100% usage even when nothing is running on my PC... I have scanned my PC for virus with no luck...

    Any idea on how to correct the situation?

    Thank you.

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    Erm, this may seem like a dumb question, but is your hard drive full? If so, try uninstalling some large programs that you don't use any more and defrag it. Can you please share your system specs and a screenshot of your drive being at 100% useage?

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    Nope, the computer is 5 months old and i got like 75% free space. Not on the computer rigth now gonna tell you the rest tomorow.

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    OK so is it your CPU or RAM or GPU maxing out instead of your hard drive maybe? Something doesnt quite add up. More details please :)

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    Your hard drive is at 100%??

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    I don't have access to my computer for the moment, but in task manager it look like this: Click image for larger version. 

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    Actual screenshot of my Task Manager :

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    Did you ever try turning off your Bittorent?

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    I use it to SYNC files between my computers. I just turned it off and now I'm at 95% instead of 100%!...

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    Quote Originally Posted by AOD_Silajan View Post
    I use it to SYNC files between my computers. I just turned it off and now I'm at 95% instead of 100%!...
    there must be something else that is utilizing your HDD constantly.

    try running this command from Command Prompt:
    chkdsk C: /f /r /x

    it will check disk for bad sectors and repair it if there are any bad sectors

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    Did last nigth, nothing changed after that... My brother just told me that windows 10 geting an update and it migth be the fact that the update is running the background without telling me?

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    Quote Originally Posted by AOD_Silajan View Post
    Did last nigth, nothing changed after that... My brother just told me that windows 10 geting an update and it migth be the fact that the update is running the background without telling me?
    It could be. Did you reboot your PC? There was an update yesterday.

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    I did the update and restarted my computer without luck.... But I have just deleted Skype from my computer and now everything is back to normal.... So I guess Skype was the reason?

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    I had similar issues not too long ago. I found various fixes on the net, and had thought it was being caused by windows ten as numerous people had had a similar problem. Turning things like Cortana off and as much of the windows 10 background crap that you never use anyway may help. What fixed it for me was replacing the hard drive. Probably not your problem though because my hard drive was five years old and was in use for 12-16 hours a day during those five years. Plus I've lived in several extremely dust rich environments. A hard drive that new shouldn't be failing, but that doesn't mean it isn't either.

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    Had a similar issue with my ex's WD Laptop drive. Turning off superfetch and prefetch seemed to help, but her drive in particular had many a review complaining about its performance so i wound up replacing it.

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    One of the first things I do when building a Windows system is to turn off search index. Unless you search your hard disk for files using the "Search" feature in Windows, you will never need it.

    The first thing I noticed from your screenshot is the 2.6MBps usage from it. It will calm down once it indexes stuff, but constantly adding and deleting files on the system will trigger this to re-index.

    On Windows 10:

    - Use the keyboard shortcut Windows-Pause to open the System control panel.
    - Click on "All control panel items" in the location bar at the top.
    - Locate and click on Indexing Options.

    Windows 7/8:

    - Hold down the windows key and hit E
    - Right click the drive in question.
    - Under the "General" tab, uncheck "Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed"
    - Confirm dialogues

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    I just noticed that the number one thing using the Disk in that screenshot is called Nvidia Container. Do you have shadowplay on by chance. I might try reinstalling those drivers without geforce experience if you don't use that function, and Also whenever possible, get a SSD to put your most played games and OS on, and move all your documents and least used stuff to the hard drive. SSDs have really come down in price, I'd recommend getting a 500gb-1tb one and be done with it if you can afford the 140-200 usd outlay. Another benefit of putting all your docs/pics/videos/etc on the hard drive while keeping programs/os on SSD is if in the future you run into any serious problems which require a reinstall, all your docs will be on another drive and not affected at all by wiping clean and starting over.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AOD_Velozzity View Post
    I just noticed that the number one thing using the Disk in that screenshot is called Nvidia Container. Do you have shadowplay on by chance. I might try reinstalling those drivers without geforce experience if you don't use that function, and Also whenever possible, get a SSD to put your most played games and OS on, and move all your documents and least used stuff to the hard drive. SSDs have really come down in price, I'd recommend getting a 500gb-1tb one and be done with it if you can afford the 140-200 usd outlay. Another benefit of putting all your docs/pics/videos/etc on the hard drive while keeping programs/os on SSD is if in the future you run into any serious problems which require a reinstall, all your docs will be on another drive and not affected at all by wiping clean and starting over.
    It's using only 1.3% so it's not an issue. It's Geforce Experience container icon on task-bar running.
    One thing that I always did and do on all my Windows versions since Windows XP times is I turn off Recovery points as they are literally useless.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AOD_ZED View Post
    It's using only 1.3% so it's not an issue. It's Geforce Experience container icon on task-bar running.
    One thing that I always did and do on all my Windows versions since Windows XP times is I turn off Recovery points as they are literally useless.
    Like really what do recovery points have to do with this issue, they are good if a new driver/software screws up your system and you want to roll back quickly. Also I believe they only create the restore point if your in the process of making changes, not in the middle of a game so performance impact with any decent system should be almost zero.

    Also where do you see 1.3%, I see 1.7 Mo/Sec, which i assume is megabytes per second of disk access speed. I think most recent hard drives should be able to do sustained of around 100+ mb/sec, if you add those 1.7 + all the .1's up you only get what like maybe 3-4mb/sec of access, so what exactly is pegging it at 100%
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    Quote Originally Posted by AOD_Velozzity View Post
    I think most recent hard drives should be able to do sustained of around 100+ mb/sec, if you add those 1.7 + all the .1's up you only get what like maybe 3-4mb/sec of access, so what exactly is pegging it at 100%
    I wish, we're still in the 40-75MBps range on SSD, and that all depends on your MB speed. Megabit, at least. Megabytes, yes.


 
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