Windows 10: Im getting 100% disk usage with almost no transfer rate. Please help

Discus and support Im getting 100% disk usage with almost no transfer rate. Please help in Windows 10 Ask Insider to solve the problem; [ATTACH] so this happens sometimes when I play games and sometimes just opening them. It just shows up on the task manager that the HDD has 100%... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Ask Insider' started by /u/Xhrike, Apr 9, 2021.

  1. /U/XHRIKE
    /u/Xhrike Win User

    Im getting 100% disk usage with almost no transfer rate. Please help


    Im getting 100% disk usage with almost no transfer rate. Please help -GkSG8Ii4fnkPW_sG6F8I5CPJd2V9pSf0buhwQbi65c.jpg

    so this happens sometimes when I play games and sometimes just opening them. It just shows up on the task manager that the HDD has 100% usage but it is not reading nor writing anything. I don't know the reason on why this is happening. This problem does not show up when I'm browsing the internet or when I'm creating or editing documents
    I have 4x4GB ram so that's more than enough, an SSD where the win10 os (1909) is installed, and an HDD for the files. CPU is Intel i7-960. GPU is Nvidia GTS 450.

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    /u/Xhrike, Apr 9, 2021
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  2. DALCHINA
    dalchina Win User

    how to determine what's causing 100% disk usage

    Considering your 2nd screenshot, assuming your Disk column is organised high to low, you have a problem with disk transfer rate- it appears to be low yet shown as 100%

    There are various programs running that appear unnecessary.

    Suggest you do a clean boot and compare. You should expect disk usage when idle - a few mins after boot - to be zero unless there's good reason.

    Comparing your 1st and 3rd screenshots, note the max transfer rate is 10x that in the 3rd screenshot.

    It's not doing an update, and not apparently a paging problem.

    From that it appears you have limited disk transfer rate, and the disk activity doesn't settle to near zero.

    There are several threads on the topic of limited transfer rate - here are some:
    Disk usage 100% please help Solved - Page 2 - Windows 10 Forums
    Slow internal hard drive tansfer speeds - Windows 10 Forums
    100% Disk Usage, tried some methods found online. - Windows 10 Forums

    I'd suggest looking through those first, using any ideas there, keep a list of what you try, and post back with that list if you still have problems.


    Please post specs of your PC. See mine for comparison.
     
    dalchina, Apr 9, 2021
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  3. DALCHINA
    dalchina Win User
    Disk usage 100% please help

    Yep, that's a very low transfer rate.

    You can try some experiments- copying from internal disk to USB disk (read), copying from USB disk to internal disk (write) and compare the transfer rate.

    Also compare in Safe Mode

    Plenty to research- and lots have struggled with this...

    Im getting 100% disk usage with almost no transfer rate. Please help [​IMG]
     
    dalchina, Apr 9, 2021
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  4. DALCHINA
    dalchina Win User

    Im getting 100% disk usage with almost no transfer rate. Please help

    Disk usage 100% please help

    Im getting 100% disk usage with almost no transfer rate. Please help [​IMG]


    1Tb internal disk, laptop, copying file to same drive.
     
    dalchina, Apr 9, 2021
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