Windows 10: Disk usage at 100% on startup

Discus and support Disk usage at 100% on startup in Windows 10 BSOD Crashes and Debugging to solve the problem; Hi, I have Windows 10 and when I boot up my computer my disk usage is at 100% and it doesn't go down. Task manager is showing no one app using a lot of... Discussion in 'Windows 10 BSOD Crashes and Debugging' started by Am_-123, Dec 19, 2020.

  1. Am_-123 Win User

    Disk usage at 100% on startup


    Hi, I have Windows 10 and when I boot up my computer my disk usage is at 100% and it doesn't go down. Task manager is showing no one app using a lot of the disk, and I've disabled apps on startup etc, reset my computer, removed unused apps, used CCleaner and checked disk. I disabled Windows search per the instructions of a Microsoft support person who I contacted but none of these had any effect. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this? I've tried a bunch of suggestions from other community threads but nonehave helped.


    I have a Lenovo ideapad 310 with 8GB RAM and an i7


    Here's my task manager with the highest disk using apps:


    Disk usage at 100% on startup 93db87aa-7518-4aef-8c51-d9ea16d325f8?upload=true.png

    :)
     
    Am_-123, Dec 19, 2020
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  2. 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
     
    Salman Patwegar, Dec 19, 2020
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  3. 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, Dec 19, 2020
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  4. sidhiqueF Win User

    Disk usage at 100% on startup

    Windows 10 Disk usage 100% on startup

    Hi,

    I am facing an issue with Disk usage 100% on startup.
     
    sidhiqueF, Dec 19, 2020
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