Windows 10: hard drive active 100% when no programs are running

Why is my hard drive active 100% when the task manager shows no programs running?My computer use to boot in a few minutes cold boot, now it takes about 10 - 15 minutes to cold boot.These problems began manifesting when I began running the latest Win 10 Home premium versions.While accessing the internet, the hard drive goes 100% active and the task manager shows very little read-write access. Of course, everything waits..... Interestingly, the CPU is a few percent, and memory is at 30% - - - this has occurred with all three browsers, Firefox, Chrome, and Edge.I have searched the internet fo

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Free hard drive backup/restore program?

I am looking for a free (freeware) program that will back up and restore a hard drive. I'm looking to clone a few external hard drives. If the program will backup the used space instead of the whole drive this will be awesome! Thanks for any suggestions.

 

Windows 10 Hard Drive activity constant 100%

I didnt disable all startup programs. Only the ones such as skype and chrome. (Those programs are only an example I have neither of those on my computer). It is the hard drive that is at 100% not the cpu or the RAM. I did say "hard drive activity".
I checked hard drive for errors. I got nothing.

 

Hard drive runs at 100% after boot

3 of us at work are having this issue - after booting our machines, the hard drive runs at 100%, effectively locking the system to unuseability. Also, it seems to be no single process, but a number of Windows processes such as:

• Service Host
• Windows Diagnostic Policy Service
• Windows Cryptographic Service
• Windows Update Orchestrator Service
• Microsoft CompatabilityTelemetry
• Windows Power Shell - this used a huge amount, in Task manager it ran up to 34% of the Hard Drive usage alone - the others all ran on between 1-10%.

SuperFetch used to chew up a huge amount as well, and reading on the forums and net, I turned the process off to see if that worked, but it obviously has not.

This issue only occurs after boot. It does not happen if you log in and log out. To get around it, I restart my machine before going home, but if it crashes I basically have to wait around 10 minutes before I can get enough control back to start opening
the programs I need. It appears to be very similar to this issue
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/hard-drive-runs-at-100-after-boot-up/9cfeda41-8a49-4eca-b228-41c7bf29c9c3 , but I can't pin mine down to just one program or process. Obviously we would like a solution to the process, but if not, are
wondering if installing an SSD would fix this (we have hybrids in our machines at the moment). All machines have the same build, and not everyone with the same build is having these issues.