Odd Hard Drive Behaviour!! PLEASE HELP!

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MysticalGamingGuy

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Is this a normal usage for a hard drive?? if not please tell we whats wrong with it. i did a disk scan/check and no errors or bad sectors were detected. I'm not the best when it comes to information about hard drives but I'm hoping you guys can help. usually the disk activity is solid at 100% but sometimes it jumps up and down. and SOMETIMES it operates normally. PLEASE HELP!
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You probably have something like Microsoft's Essentials doing a virus scan, readyboost rebuilding its cache, background defrag, file indexing or other stuff of the sort going through your HDD.

I tried turning off as much of that stuff as I could find on my PC but there are still times where I hear my computer start accessing the HDD for no apparent reason and have not managed to identify which service is causing it.
 
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well maybe if you looked at the picture, you would know that none of that stuff is running, and even if it was could you be more specific! all you did was narrow it down to "computer stuff"...
please check out my other post where i notice the hard drive related to lag spikes
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2266770/lag-spikes-games-related-hard-drive-active-time.html
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"svchost.exe" can be dozens of different things and it is reading 3MB/s in that screenshot so one of the services that relies on it is doing something. If you want to find out what that is, you will have to drill down to find what owns that specific instance of it.
 
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what would be the way of drilling down on the instance. is it normal to have a huge list of "svchost" or whatever it could be. any input on my other forum post would be greatly appreciated as well because this issue could be whats freezing up my games.
 
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Thanks for telling me about Process Explorer, it seems much better then task manager! FYI, i don't have windows defender. i took a screen cap of when my hard drive was operation on 100% active time and it didn't look much different from when it was at 0%. possible hardware failure? I'm not sure. take form this picture what you can

P.S. some of the very bottom processes were cut out and its organized by "working set"

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