Disk usage spiking too 100% for no reason?

joegilrod · Apr 15, 2016

http://puu.sh/ojkSr/97c52048f3.png
This is what it looks like. I went on holiday for a few days and came back to this, using a samsung 500gb SSD, have never had any problems like this before. Did a virus scan and it got to 99% with no viruses and had an error finishing the last percent. Anyone know a fix to this?

Ralston18 · Apr 15, 2016

Look in the Event Viewer logs:

Start with Windows Logs > System

You may need to search around some - the objective is to see what errors, if any, are being reported with respect to the disk drive(s).

joegilrod · Apr 16, 2016

Ralston18 :

I ended up having to do a clean install of windows because it just wouldn't load. Still seem to be having some sort of issue and logs don't show anything. I used my SSD's software to do a benchmark and all seemed ok. Also swapped the sata cables on the SSD which I don't know if it did anything.
http://puu.sh/ok9uG/3f99830d6a.png what it looks like currently on task manager.
http://puu.sh/ok9xZ/2eb6a9067e.png showing that it can run high on a benchmark
http://puu.sh/ok9zY/57b0f365bb.png benchmark results
Any idea whats wrong?

Ralston18 · Apr 16, 2016

Look at the other tabs in Task Manager.... Performance, App History, and so on.

See if some process or service is running that you do not recognize or expect to be running. Lots of things may be running and some are critical. Others not.

Then you can right click any given process/service and "End Task".

See if the Disk Usage goes back to normal. You need to know what software is utilizing the disk(s).

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