Windows 10: E disk disappeared from Windows 10 settings but shows 100% active time in task manager,...

Hello,


My pc worked fine last night, but today after startup I noticed programs were not opening when clicking on them and icons on my desktop were not loading some of them, not all.


Certain programs, like discord, windows settings, chrome and task manager work just fine. Windows explorer works fine aswell, but as soon as I click on the E drive in the explorer, it stops responding and I get the spinning 'loading' cursor.


In windows settings, under storage, I can see an overview of my drives and their respective capacity, my E drive is not listed here. It does shop up in the task manager however, but like I said with 100% active time. Overall disk usage under the 'processes' tab in the task manager is hovering around 25-26% in idle. The E drive is not actively writing or reading anything, it spikes to like 80 KB/s once every minute or so.


I noticed Windows took longer to startup this morning, and read that for some people this problem gets resolved after like 10-15 minutes, but after well over an hour it's still here.


My specs:

Ryzen 5 3600

2x8 GB RAM @ 3600MHz

MSI RTX 3070 Ventus 3X OC

MSI B450M A-Pro Max

Samsung EVO 960 or 970, a 256gb ssd used to boot windows from

2 other internal HDD's a 2TB one and a 500GB one

1 External 1TB HDD, this is the E drive that's causing the problem. This is connected through a USB 3.0 in the back of my PC.

Running windows 10 version 1909.

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Task Manager has Disk at 100% when only 0 - 3 mg are shown as used

I have done both of these each time I have reinstalled Windows 10

1) Formatted my disk and partitioned it as needed for Windows 10

1) Installed Windows 10 Home Edition 64 bit

2) Disabled Superfetch

3) Disabled Windows Search

4) Disabled BITS

5) Uninstalled Skype and SkypeHost.exe

6) Set MSISupported to "0" in registry

After each step I would reboot my computer and get the same problem 100% Disk in Task Manager

2) Installed Norton Antivirus and disabled Windows Defender and rebooted.

1) The system booted and hit 100% in Task Manager for about 5 minutes.

2) Attempted to open Windows Notepad and the Task Manager went back to 100% Disk.

In all instances the Task Manager Disk Listing would show between 0.3 and 2.5 total usage and still show the Disk at 100% on the top freezing the computer.

 

Task manager showing disk usage 100%

100% disk usage can have many causes.

What are the top 5 processes listed in the task manager using the disk?

 

Task Manager has Disk at 100% when only 0 - 3 mg are shown as used

I have:

1) Formatted my disk and partitioned it as needed for Windows 10

1) Installed Windows 10 Home Edition 64 bit

2) Disabled Superfetch

3) Disabled Windows Search

4) Disabled BITS

5) Uninstalled Skype and SkypeHost.exe

6) Set MSISupported to "0" in registry

After each step I would reboot my computer and get the same problem 100% Disk in Task Manager

2) Installed Norton Antivirus and disabled Windows Defender and rebooted.

1) The system booted and hit 100% in Task Manager for about 5 minutes.

2) Attempted to open Windows Notepad and the Task Manager went back to 100% Disk.

In all instances the Task Manager Disk Listing would show between 0.3 and 2.5 total usage and still show the Disk at 100% on the top freezing the computer.