Windows 10: 100% disk usage of my laptop even at idle.

Discus and support 100% disk usage of my laptop even at idle. in Windows 10 BSOD Crashes and Debugging to solve the problem; For starters, I'm using an Asus K550J with Windows 10 pro. The issue is that the disk is consistently at 100% even at idle or if I'm using my PC for... Discussion in 'Windows 10 BSOD Crashes and Debugging' started by Palm Eric, Sep 15, 2023.

  1. PALM ERIC
    Palm Eric Win User

    100% disk usage of my laptop even at idle.


    For starters, I'm using an Asus K550J with Windows 10 pro. The issue is that the disk is consistently at 100% even at idle or if I'm using my PC for work stuff not gaming or streaming videos. I've tried following steps in YouTube such as disabling sysmain, chckdsk in cmd, setting my virtual memory to recommended levels, etc. but to no avail. What's a possible solution I haven't tried yet? I'm thinking of upgrading my HDD to SDD, will this work? Thanks in advance.

    :)
     
    Palm Eric, Sep 15, 2023
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  2. FREDERIK LONG
    Frederik Long Win User

    100 % disk usage

    This is not quite what I asked.

    After a period of 5 . . 10 hours, your disk use should settle to around 5% while Windows is idling.
     
    Frederik Long, Sep 15, 2023
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  3. DJOLE123
    Djole123 Win User
    Laptop idles at 70-100%

    It's not the disk, it's the CPU that idles like that.

    The only ''fix'' is to force the CPU to 50% max in advanced power settings, but that's kind of pointless as I'm leaving half of my CPU's potential unused.
     
    Djole123, Sep 15, 2023
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  4. LUCASPARSONS
    LucasParsons Win User

    100% disk usage of my laptop even at idle.

    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.
     
    LucasParsons, Sep 15, 2023
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