Windows 10: 100% Disk usage and cannot Reset PC to Try to Correct the disk issue

I have Windows 10. Ever since I got this computer 10 months ago, I have been experiencing disk usage that is at 100% all the time. It makes it dang near impossible to do anything - I have problems opening anything, problems with running programs, problems with the internet not loading. I have done everything that I have researched on here include the DISM scans and restoring with no corrupted files showing up. I also completed SFC Scannow and it showed no corrupted files. I tried to reset my PC using the keep my files selection because I don't feel like having to reinstall everything again. A box pops up saying that it will take a few minutes but then says that there was a problem resetting the PC. I have tried troubleshooting. I checked all the drivers and they are all current. I can't figure what the heck is going on. I then tried resetting the PC by using the selection to remove everything and I get the same thing - a pop up that says there was a problem resetting PC. Is there anything else that I can do to stop the disk usage being at 100% all the time or something else I can do to reset it. I tried the fresh start option, too, and just get the same error all the time. Frustrated as frustrated can get. I have never experience this until I bought this computer. I also am having issues trying to start in safe mode as well. It just won't come up when I restarted and hit f4 or f5.


I have Dell Inspiron G5090. Windows 10 home. Intel Core i5 9400 with 32 gig memory - originally had 16 gig memory but I added another 16 gig to see if it would help the Disk issue. Graphic card is Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650. I do have Norton 360 as my antivirus - Have had this with every computer I have ever had and never had problems with it.


Any information would be greatly appreciated.


Thank you

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100% disk usage

The most common cause of 100% disk usage appears to be Superfetch and Prefetch, but there are also other causes. You can try disabling both these features and see if it helps.

This article provides steps to disable prefecth and superfetch:

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How to Fix 100% Disk Usage Error in Windows 10

 

100% disk usage and memory usage

Hi,

100% disk usage and memory usage can be caused by a software corruption, running application running on the background and malware or virus infection.

For us to properly isolate the issue and provide an appropriate resolution, kindly answer the questions below:

• Did the issue happen after installing the Fall Creators?
• Did you receive any error messages?
• Can you send us the screenshot of the Task Manager showing the 100% disk usage and memory usage?
• What troubleshooting steps have you done so far?

For isolation purposes, please perform a clean boot to see if the same issue will occur. Refer to this
article for more information on how to perform a clean boot
in Windows.

Looking forward to your response.

 

100% disk usage.

Summer has ended and my girlfriend booted her school laptop for the first time in months, only for it to be so unbearably slow that it took several minutes to log in. She handed it to me and said "fix it"... that was 3 days ago and now I am here to humbly
ask the community what is going on with this GD laptop.

It boots and task manager reports 100%CPU usage, it then lags for several seconds and displays 100%disk usage with CPU usage bouncing between 30-60%.

If you leave it alone with task manager running it will eventually quiet down to a reasonable 0-5% disk usage, but doing ANYTHING causes it to bounce right back to 100%.

I have tried EVERYTHING.

• disable superfetch.
• disable microsoft search.
• disable updates and suggestive tips.
• updated to the most current version of microsoft. (it hadn't been updated since 2018 when she bought it.)
• reconfigured AHCI PCIE.
• changed energy options.
• disabled indexing.
• reset the virtual memory.
• ran disk defragment and disabled all scheduling.
• updated all drivers.
• deleted google chrome.
• Disabled all services that weren't microsoft services and disabled all startup programs (clean boot).

Still no change in the disk usage.

Its an HP Laptop model 15-bw0xx with Windows 10 home edition version 10.0.18362

after messing with it this long im considering replacing the HDD with an SSD but I fear that it wont fix the issue.