100% Disk Usage Even In Idle

Jadester · Nov 15, 2014

Not quite sure if this request belongs in this part of the forum, but here we go:

For the past month now my Disk has been (seemingly) randomly spiking to 100% Disk usage, making even surfing the internet pure torture.

Most of the time, it doesn't make any sense either.

Nothing will be toruturing the disk, yet It sticks at 100% and hangs everything.

Other times, it still won't make sense, but "System" seems to be eating something:

Please help me fix this problem, it makes using this otherwise nice PC a horror story.

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geofelt · Nov 15, 2014

If you have a virus or malware, it could be searching your drives for info.

Jadester · Nov 15, 2014

@Geofelt I've run Mbam multiple times, and it has found nothing. I don't think its that.

Slavegamer · Nov 15, 2014

Read this
http://www.stigviewer.com/stig/microsoft_office_system_2013/2013-12-11/finding/V-40887

It looks like office Telemetry is a monitoring your hard drive , not sure what you use this for . If it is used for work then I would consider dedicating a computer for that function apart from your personal machine. This looks normal for office telemetry . If not then I would suspect a virus, but after reading about office telemetry I am sure its that program

Please select best answer if this helps

popatim · Nov 15, 2014

I can't see the pics but several things could be processing in the background: AV scan, superfetch, drive indexing... or the drive could be having problems and SMART is attempting data recovery on pending sectors. At least checkout the SMART using any of the many free utilities and if you see failed, bad, uncorrectible sectors then the problem is likely to be your drive. Post up your SMARt values so we can have a look.

Jadester · Nov 15, 2014

Hey popatim, thanks for the reply.

I went into command prompt and entered
"wmic"
then
"diskdrive get status".

I was told this way a way to check your S.M.A.R.T. status, and when I did it simply responded with "Status OK"

Does this mean anything to you?

Jadester · Nov 15, 2014

Also, to respond to Slavegamer, I don't know what "Office Telemetry" is.
This problem happened over 1 night when I just left my PC on, so not much could have changed.

Also, wouldn't I be able to see in task manager if Telemetry was using the disk? I've never seen it use anything noticable.

If it is the problem though, how would I disable/uninstall it?

popatim · Nov 15, 2014

Crystal disk info
Smart monitoring tool
HD Tune
HDD scan
even Speedfan will show you whats in the SMART .

Use one of those.

geofelt · Feb 21, 2015

On a new install of windows, the indexing function will start up in the background.
Check on that.
Google is your friend.

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