I've had this laptop for 2 years, used it quite a lot, but doing normal tasks, like browsing, some minimal video gaming, watching videos, and whatnot. I've always had an old Win 10 version I can't remember, and only updated to build 1709 a couple of days ago, that's when the issue started. I have an HDD.
The issue: Task manager shows 100% disk usage, but it doesn't show any processes using the disk. I have tried resmon and Process Explorer but they also don't show any processes using the disk either. Computer is extremely slow and practically unusable.
- The issue only happens if I let my laptop idle for a couple of minutes, it doesn't go to sleep, or even dim the screen, but the issue happens. As long as I'm moving the mouse, the issue doesn't occur.
- I have tried disabling several stuff like Windows Defender, Superfetch, Windows search, running a chkdsk, nothing worked.
- I noticed that every time the bug occurs, I get an error in event viewer under the Disk category saying "The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block."
- I used CrystalDiskInfo for SMART values, it shows everything as OK except for Current Pending Sector Count, current value is 100, worst is 100, threshold is 0. It shows this under a yellow light which says Caution.
The issue only started happening after I did a fresh installation of Windows 10, and it doesn't occur on Ubuntu (I have dual boot), so I'm inclined to think it's a software issue, not hardware. What can I do to know which one is it? If it is hardware, can you even replace an HDD on a laptop? Or is it more cost effective to just buy a new one?
The issue: Task manager shows 100% disk usage, but it doesn't show any processes using the disk. I have tried resmon and Process Explorer but they also don't show any processes using the disk either. Computer is extremely slow and practically unusable.
- The issue only happens if I let my laptop idle for a couple of minutes, it doesn't go to sleep, or even dim the screen, but the issue happens. As long as I'm moving the mouse, the issue doesn't occur.
- I have tried disabling several stuff like Windows Defender, Superfetch, Windows search, running a chkdsk, nothing worked.
- I noticed that every time the bug occurs, I get an error in event viewer under the Disk category saying "The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block."
- I used CrystalDiskInfo for SMART values, it shows everything as OK except for Current Pending Sector Count, current value is 100, worst is 100, threshold is 0. It shows this under a yellow light which says Caution.
The issue only started happening after I did a fresh installation of Windows 10, and it doesn't occur on Ubuntu (I have dual boot), so I'm inclined to think it's a software issue, not hardware. What can I do to know which one is it? If it is hardware, can you even replace an HDD on a laptop? Or is it more cost effective to just buy a new one?
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