Windows 10: 100% Disk Usage on Secondary Steam Games SSD

I have had a strange problem for over a month now and have made lots of different attempts to fix it.


When starting my computer one of my SSDs runs at 100% usage slowing down the entire computer, especially file explorer even though it only has a steam library on it. I tried the SSD in another PC and it seemed fine, I therefore presumed it was bad hardware and replaced the SSD with one of the same model. The new SSD has the exact same issue, I have tried disabling windows services, full PC reset and swapping all SATA ports on my motherboard. There dosen't seem to be any obvious process using the SSD on resource manager. Also the average response speed and read and write speed are all 0 when the drive is at 100% usage.


I do have another minor problem that may be related, occasionally when I launch the task manager I will only see one of my drives instead of all of them, then a few seconds later they will all appear and my problematic SSD will be at 100% usage.


I have tried to fix this for quite a while now and would appreciate in getting the problem sorted as it is incredibly frustrating.


Specs:

Ryzen 7 3700x

32GB 3600Mhz Corsair Vengeance Pro RGB RAM

Gigabyte RTX 2070 Super

X570 Aorus Elite Motherboard

850W Cooler Master V850 80+ Gold PSU

Windows 10 64Bit Version 1909


HDDSby SATA Port:

0: Samsung 840 Evo 240GB Windows Boot Drive

1: WD Blue 3d NAND SSD 500GB Problematic SSD

2: WD Green 3TB HDD

3: Seagate Barracude 1TB HDD

4: DVD Drive

M.2 SSD Kingston 120GB

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100% Disk Usage on Secondary Hard Drive

I'm not too sure entirely if this is Windows 10 or the hard drive, but recently on one of my secondary drives, the disk usage spikes up to 100% and stays at max for a long time. The capacity of the hard drive is 1TB and I've split it into two partitions.
I noticed this happens when I use the Dolphin Emulator and access files from the "GAME" partition I made or when I play games on the "GAME" partition. Windows doesn't lag, but the application(s) in question slow down to a standstill without any real reason
it seems.

Thank you for your advice and help.

 

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.

 

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