Disk usage constantly 100%

bamitscon · Nov 21, 2018

Why is my Disk Usage constantly at 100%,
It causes my computer to be slow and freezes at times.

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My avast just shot up to 7MB/s too

guanyu210379 · Nov 21, 2018

Assuming your HDD is still ok, something is running in the background.
Perhaps difragment job, virus scan, viruses/malwares, etc.
Try to find out what is really running

or...your HDD is about to die...

bamitscon · Nov 21, 2018

guanyu210379 :

this is the health of my HDD
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This is the current situation, i have done recent HDD checks on crystal disk and its said its "Good" in the box. or what ever it is for fine, what do you suggest? how do i difragment,
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SkyNetRising · Nov 21, 2018

Can you show screenshot from Resource Monitor Disk Activity section?
(order it by column total and adjust file name column to be fully visible)

Should look similar to this:

bamitscon · Nov 21, 2018

SkyNetRising :

Sure, here you go
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Baring in mind i am defragging my HDD atm

SkyNetRising · Nov 21, 2018

Make another screenshot, when defragmenting has finished (and order by column "Total" not "Read").
Currently most of disk usage is caused by defragmenting.

gasaraki · Nov 21, 2018

Wait. Did you say you are defragging your HD when this happens? What is the hard drive usage when you are not doing anything with nothing open? If your Hard drive usage is still high, I sspect you have 4GB of memory? Having only 4GB of RAM will cause high hard drive usage. Increasing it to 8GB will drop your hard drive usage to nothing.

I would also suggest a SSD if you are still using a spinning hard drive.

bamitscon · Nov 21, 2018

gasaraki :

i have 16GB of RAM, i have a gaming PC. 4GB would get me no where lol, no i havent defragged before, i am defragging to see if it will resolve the issue.

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bamitscon · Nov 21, 2018

SkyNetRising :

Oops my bad, the defragging is done, and my Disk is at 4/6% now, hopefully it doesnt shoot back up to 100% again, heres the Resource Monitor;
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SkyNetRising · Nov 21, 2018

Well - you don't have 100% disk usage anymore. You'd need to get it back to find out, what was causing it.

BTW it's quite unusual to see a gaming system with mechanical storage only.
Have you considered upgrading to SSD?

bamitscon · Nov 21, 2018

SkyNetRising :

I did have an SSD on my previous build but never bought one with this one, i am going to buy one just when i get round to it.

I was going to buy these;

Storage: Crucial - MX500 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($89.85 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($58.89 @ OutletPC)

bamitscon · Nov 22, 2018

SkyNetRising :

Ok my computer was fine yesterday after it sorted itself out, when starting the computer today its on 100% disk usage, is this normal when starting up your PC for the first time after a while?

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gdmaclew · Nov 22, 2018

Yes it is normal.

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