help asap windows is killing me!

[nickwhannan]

So long story short been having an issue with windows 10 running at 100% disc space on my pc. So I just upgraded my motherboard, cpu, ram and did a wipe and reinstalled windows 10 and it is still doing it even worse now!!! Can someone give me a fix for this because at this point i want to throw my pc out the window!! Any help is appreciated this is ridiculous i cant even use my pc.

 

[nzalog]

Not enough details bud.

Size of drives. Does windows show same size drives you think you have?

 

[warhead0]

There's many potential answers for this, ill try list a few i can think of.

Have you tried leaving the machine idle for a few hours, A fresh install will generally have some high usage while many services and activities creating cache on the HDD and various other little things like indexing the HDD.

Is the OS completely up to date, or is it performing a real time protection scan?

is the HDD healthy, perhaps the HDD has issues with bad sectors and is simply having read and write problems.

Perhaps buying an SSD for the OS drive is a much better 'upgrade' if disk usage is a problem, the SSD will perform many many times better than the HDD currently is.

 

[nickwhannan]

I have a 1 tb hdd and it shows 449GB used and 931GB free. I have not let it sit idle was installing all the drives and such but it is running slow. How would I tell if it's completely up to date? it checked for updates before it installed. checked hdd and only had 2 errors on it. Yes a ssd will be my next purchase.

 

[warhead0]

For a freshly installed windows, 449GB is a very very large amount of data to be on the HDD. is that space used by personal files you want to keep?

 

[nickwhannan]

I have no idea, when it asked to keep personal files and apps i said keep nothing but the weird part was my old screen saver stayed but nothing else. I mean do you think i need to take my pc in to get it looked at by a professsional. i can usually solve problems by myself but this one has me stuck.

 

[madmatt30]

449gb used ??
931gb free ??

On a 1 tb drive ??

I'd like to know where I can get one of those magic 1tb drives with 1.5tb of space mate ;-)

931gb on a 1tb drive is absolutely correct after formatting.

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/254118-32-external-harddrive-930gb

 

[nickwhannan]

i know its more than 1tb but that is what it is showing under system. i dont know what is going with this thing man lol

 

[warhead0]

Try running a 'disk clean-up' and remove any .old installs that might still be on the HDD.

 

[nickwhannan]

ok will try that and see what happens. will let you know.

 

[nzalog]

Do this instead. Get a USB drive (8GB or more).

Google windows 10 installer (or use this link: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=691209)

Use this utility to create a windows 10 bootable usb key.


Now once you get to boot from the usb drive.

it should start the installer. At this point however go to repair my PC, troubleshooting and get a command prompt.

At command prompt, type 'diskpart'

then in diskpart type the following.

'list disk'

it should tell you your disks, remember the number of the disk you want to erase and install on.

Now type 'select disk 0' or possibly this 'select disk 1' (just depends on the number your 1TB drive is).

Once you have selected the 1TB drive in diskpart and your sure you have nothing you need on it type "clean" and hit enter.

This should wipe your 1TB drive 100%.

at this point you can type 'exit' to get out of diskpart.

Now you can type 'setup' and hit enter and do your install again.


This should give you a nice clean slate.

 

[warhead0]

That is what I was pretty much going to recommend next. delete every partition on that drive and start it fresh.

It's what I would be doing in that situation.

 

[nzalog]

That is what I was pretty much going to recommend next. delete every partition on that drive and start it fresh.

It's what I would be doing in that situation.

Sorry wasn't trying to step on anybodies toes just took me a bit to type all that and didn't see any good suggestions yet.

I generally always do a diskpart/clean between a fresh install. Windows does a good job partitioning it all out on a blank drive.

 

[dudio]

Is this a legit copy of Windows?
(Also make sure you get all your motherboard drivers)

 

[nickwhannan]

so gave it through the night to do its thing and am still getting spikes just sitting here typing this to 90%+ disk then it goes back down to 1%. yes I just purchased a product key for windows 10 pro. I guess i will have to do the clean wipe if it keeps up. I feel like the problem is a lot of window apps are running in the background that makes it spike or no?

 

[nickwhannan]

reason i asked that is bc when i go into services I have things like this running with high PID. 128832-windows error reporting service, 11468- diagnostic system host, 9360- humna interface device service, 8804 User data storage_562a8, etc. Are these programs possibly causing my issue?

 

[madmatt30]

So this is usage you're talking about not space ??

I've had this same issue mate in the past.

What's the rest of your hardware??

Open task manager , then resource monitor - you'll sew exactly what is creating disk usage under the middle drive tab.

For me it was compattelrunner(windows telemetry tool) & the geforce experience app , these were both scanning literally every file on every boot , 100% disk usage for 40 minutes at a time.

 

[warhead0]

Yes background apps do need some resources to continue running, the ones you just mentioned are all fine.

If you want to do a little looking type 'msconfig' into start and have a look at the services (hide all microsoft) and see if there are apps that are out of place that you can disable, same goes for the start-up services, see if there's anything you don't need in there and disable it.

I doubt disabling one or two services is what's causing your issues but who knows, it might help a little.

 

[madmatt30]

To add , on previous version of win 10 I had to take admin control of the compattelrunner file & remove it completely.

Since the creators update (which reinstalls it & gives control back to windows ) I've been able to leave it alone.

Are you on the creators update now ??

 

[nickwhannan]

im not sure if im on creator or not i dont think so just 10 pro

 

[nickwhannan]

my hardware is an i7 7700k, 16gb corsair 2666mhz ran, msi z270 tomahawk motherboard, gtx 970, and a evga supernova 550watt

 

[madmatt30]

Apols warhead - on mobile & down voted you by mistake.

https://kb.netgear.com/20246/Using-Winver-command-to-find-the-Windows-version

Use the winver command to find out what you're on.

If its prior to version 1703 then use then link posted above or the media creation tool to update to the creators edition.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.windowscentral.com/use-media-creation-tool-update-windows10%3Famp

 

[nickwhannan]

will i have to buy another product key for that?

 

[nickwhannan]

oh its version 1703 windows pro

 

[madmatt30]

No - its an update , although it does write over windows completely & moves the old install to a backup folder ready for deletion or for downgrading back.

The media creation tool will either prompt you to update OR to make a USB install drive or iso file

I would suggest selecting the iso file option.
The reason being if the upgrade install fails it has to be downloaded again completely

Make an iso file , extract it from within windows & run the setup file.