Computer Disk Problems

Makai_

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Mar 21, 2016
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Computer has been giving me grief for almost a week now. Here's a summary of the issues:

-Every startup and 20-40 minutes or so, the disk usage shoots up to 100% and stays that way for 10-20 minutes, until returning. This happens even when the computer isn't being used. Through use of resource manager, it appears that there is no service using the entirety of disk bandwidth, but rather that no services are using any. Have disabled all non-windows services, including superfetch, to no avail.
-On attempt to update through windows, a "0%, 0kb downloaded" message hangs regardless of time updating, making an update impossible. Error code 8073712.
-Through attempting the use the update troubleshooter, it fails.
-Running DISM.exe succeeded in scanning the system, but gave an error when attempting to fix the issue, code 0x800f0906, no changes were made.
-Refreshing windows failed, no changes made.
-Disk defrag does nothing.
-Antivirus turned up a clean search.
-System Mechanic made no difference.
-Attempting to backup files to an external disk unsuccessful, disk will hang and cancel file transfer.

Any idea what could be causing this, and how to fix it? Computer is a Toshiba Flex 15, disk is a 500gb SSD.
 
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Rafael Mestdag

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Mar 25, 2014
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It appears you have a failing SSD. Have you tried using the SSD's own testing software in order to see if there's a problem with it? You can probably find it on the SSD's official site.
 
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