Windows 10: D: drive jumps to 100% if I do anything, how could I fix that?

Since a few days ago my D: drive became really slow. Checked it out in task manager and I saw that it is constantly running on 100%. I am using a 5 years old Acer Aspire E5-571G with Win 10 and have a hard drive partitioned into a C: and D: drives. I also installed an SSD around 2 years ago for faster booting speed. I have no problem with the other 2 drives, only with D:.

I tried:

• restarting the laptop
• turning off windows search
• turning off superfetch
• turning off Windows Defender
• scanning for suspicious files with MalwareBytes

The last 2 methods seemed to work at first since D: went down to 0%, but as soon as I tried to copy my data to an other drive, it went 100% again, thus the copying would take weeks. Also after a while, the drive seems to disappear completely. Restarting the computer takes around 2 hours because windows tries to restore the drive at every startup. Right now I can use all my files and the drive goes down to 0%, but if I click on anything it jumps right back to 100. What should I do?

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D drive

Hi,

Based on the details you have provided us, it appears that there might be some corrupted contents on the said partition. We can also consider that this is caused by a virus.

For us to check if a certain virus is hiding your files, kindly follow the steps below:

• Type Command prompt in the search bar.
• Type-in the following command:
  
  attrib -h -r -s /s /d D:\*.*
• Press Enter to execute the command.

If you think that there is nothing important stored in it, then we suggest that you reformat your D drive so that you can use the free space for important files.

You can follow the steps below to start with the process:

• Click on the File Explorer.
• Select This PC.
• Right-click on your D drive, then click on Format.
• Follow the on-screen process to finish formatting the partition.

Let us know how it goes so that we can further assist you.

 

USB jump drive won't work in windows 10 professional; says disk is write protected; jump drive was formatted exFAT prior

Hello Martha,

Thank you for posting on Microsoft Community. We regret the inconvenience caused and will assist you in resolving the issue.

Before assisting further, I would like to ask you few questions:

• Did you check if similar issue persists on connecting other jump drives on the computer?
• Did you make any other changes apart from formatting the jump drive to
  exFat format prior to the issue?

You might be facing the above issue due to the Read only option selected on the jump drive connected to the PC.

I suggest you to check if similar issue persists on connecting other USB drives on the PC. If the issue does not persist, I suggest you to follow the steps below and check if the issue is resolved.

• Connect the jump drive to the computer and open File explorer by pressing
  Windows logo + X keys on the keyboard.
• Click on This PC from the left side panel of the window and right click on the jump drive shown under
  Disks & Drives.
• Select Properties from the context menu and uncheck
  Read only if marked.
• Click on Yes when the option saying Apply changes to subfolders and files writing to this folder pops.
• Click on Apply and OK on the same window.
• Close the window, check if the changes are effective by unplugging and re-plugging the jump drive on the computer.

If the issue persists, is suggest you to contact the jump drive manufacturer’s support for further assistance.

Write to us with answers to the above questions and the status of the issue on the same post for further assistance. Your reply is most important for us to ensure we assist you accordingly.

Thank you.

 

Hard drive routinely jumps to 100% and is slow

Hello,

My Windows 10 PC has been really slow. I remember it being like this for a while, even back when I had Windows 7. I would really appreciate your help. *Smile My Windows Version is 1909 Build 18363.836


Symptoms:

I have a 1TB Seagate ST1000DM hard drive. I noticed that often times the HDD will be at 100% usage, sometimes even with low transfer speed (e.g. less than 1 mb/s). It happens when I open a program, at bootup, and randomly as I use the computer.

When it jumps to 100%, all programs become unresponsive and slow. Programs take ages to open like my web browser, Firefox, as the hard drive thrashes before it finally opens and the HDD settles down.

Other times, the HDD usage is 0% and every open program is smooth until I open a new program. Then the HDD momentarily jumps to 100% and all programs slow down.

At bootup, everything is really sluggish. It takes forever to log in, and the log-in screen is very slow. Finally, everything settles down after at least 10 minutes I recall.

I used a program called Autorun Organizer to disable and delay some startup programs, which helped speed up boot a lot. Still, as the delayed programs open, there is slowdown.

When RAM is filling up, rising to 80% I think, the System process starts using 100% disk usage and everything becomes very slow if not unusuable.

I experimented, and the HDD jumps to 100% frequently such as when I first open programs. I opened Internet Explorer and it jumped to 100% before falling, though later it opened faster and didn't jump the HDD usage. Alarms & Clock app jumped it to 70%, and Voice Recorder jumped it to 85%.

When I opened Calculator just now, Windows Defender showed up and took 60% disk usage and I heard the HDD, but those other times the program itself takes up the disk usage.

I have Epic Games Launcher and Steam installed on my PC. I noticed that Epic Games launcher will try to auto update my games in the background, which slows down the PC.

Troubleshooting Steps:

Windows Security uses a lot of HDD at times. I decided to install BItdefender to see if Win Defender had a problem, but Bitdefender caused my HDD to slow down even more. It caused a black screen for 30 seconds at bootup before the log-in screen loaded, so I removed it.

I've tried to do some troubleshooting with my hard drive. I've checked it with SeaTools using their "Short generic" and "long generic" test, which it passed.

I've also run the SMART test which passed. In addition, CrystalDiskInfo says health is Good and so does Hard Disk Sentinel.

I ran Check Disk, which passed. I ran a full antivirus scan with Win Defender, which found nothing. I ran SFC /scannow which found some corrupt files and fixed them. I also checked Disk Defragmenter and it is good.

Running a "Random 4k" test with Crystal Disk Mark says I have 0.63 read MB/s and 0.85 write MB/s.

I read that I could disable SuperFetch, which helped a lot. Now the computer isn't constantly bogging down from HDD usage. The System process used to cause 100% disk usage, which lead me to the solution. (It still jumps up occasionally, like when I have at least 80% RAM usage.)

I did a fix for the "PCI-express firmware bug," which didn't help. I took some steps from this video:

Thoughts

I think there's a problem because the hard drive routinely jumps to 100% and slows down from normal actions or randomly slows. It happens when I open Firefox or boot up, and random Windows processes will cause it.

My computer is very old. It's custom built by a friend from 2013, and my HDD is from 2016 I think. It has 9600 power on hours and 4775 power on counts.

Could you help me decide if my hard drive has a problem and needs to be replaced? Thanks!

p.s. I hope everybody's doing okay.