hard drive at 100%, then drops suddenly to 0, then repeats.

Hey Adrian · Jun 20, 2018

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heres a screenshot of when i first start up windows. any help please?

http://prntscr.com/jx7vu9, this is the resource monitor screenshot.
i have a wd caviar blue, 1 tb.

any help would be greatly appreciated. it always ends up slowing down my windows tremendously and i believe it causes some stutters in games as well. i only have 8 gb of ram if that could also affect it.

t53186 · Jun 20, 2018

when the drive is at 99.68% and the disk queue is 1.49 it indicates the drive is operating at full speed capacity and is waiting to send more data. About the only improvement you can make is install an SSD. You could also run antivirus and malware tools to verify your system is clean. Also it look like cortana was doing something drive intensive.

If you leave the machine idle does it reduce disk activity?

dextermat · Jun 20, 2018

Hi,
What process are hogging the disk.
This week windows 10 has some strange updates and if you internet / computer is slow, the update might be hogging the disk.
Best thing to do is check if you computer is updating. If so wait until it finishes.
If you want better performance, get an ssd. Windows update will work better.

Hey Adrian · Jun 20, 2018

t53186 :

yes.

seagate_surfer · Jun 20, 2018

Hey Adrian, run Seatools on your HDD to see if it picks something up. This is more to be safe and to rule out the HDD been the cause of the problem.

t53186 · Jun 20, 2018

Hey Adrian :

If drive activity drops and you have run antivirus and malware with no detections it's sounding like everything is performing as expected, maybe not as fast as you would like though. Use resmon to identify what image is being used by the CPU and disk, might give you and idea of what program is using all the resources.

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