Windows 10: My hard drive is at 100% usage

I tried everything online to fix it... i even reinstalled windows. What is causing this to happen? Its not constantly at 100%, but it goes up when i do basically anything, and at startup. Its causing my pc to slow down tremendously. Please help.

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100% Disk Usage on Secondary Hard Drive

At the moment, I'm trying Method 2, but it causes 100% usage just by attempting to read it. According to Task Manager, it is the utilizes the hard drive the most on I/O read bytes, but this Chrome window uses the most on I/O write bytes (I have it installed
on my SSD, so I doubt it should be causing anything in the other hard drives.).

I had to close the first instance because it didn't respond when I chose to scan the drive. As of right now, it has not made any progress and the hard drive is at 100% usage.

Does the amount of files on the disk affect how it is read as well? I recently bought this hard drive new and have very little files on it.

Edit: It apparently decided to switch to my main C: drive instead of going to the hard drive. I'm going to retry with a full system scan.

It hit a spike when it started scanning C:\Windows\syswow64\Spoonuninstall.exe right now. There is 0 kb read/write on the hard drive that is hitting 100% usage.

Final Edit:

I found that when I formatted the drive partition, it started running properly again. I tested out the Dolphin emulator as well as other games on it and it never peaked at 100%. It seems that something on the disk was causing the peaks, but what exactly
I couldn't find out. It may have been a file corrupted as I copied over the games from my smaller hard drive or something else. Either way, it seems the problem is gone so far.

 

computer freeze, hard drive 100%

Hi Cintlex,

Something may be causing your hard drive to over work that's why you're getting a 100% disk usage. To work on this problem, please go through the following solutions to determine and address the issue. Make sure to check your disk usage every after performing
each of the suggested troubleshooting.

Perform a scan with your antivirus software.

If you have Windows Defender Antivirus installed, please perform a scan to determine whether or not a virus or a malware is causing the issue. Please see Scan
an item with Windows Defender Antivirus for the detailed steps.

Disable Windows Search.

Windows Search makes searching files on your computer much faster. However, frequent use make cause slow PC performance as its indexing the searched files. To temporarily disable Windows Search, follow these steps:

1. Right-click the Windows key and select Command Prompt (Admin).
2. In the command prompt window, type in net.exe stop "Windows search" and press
   Enter.

In case the disk usage still the same, then try to permanently disable Windows Search. Here's how:

1. Press Windows key + R.
2. In the Run field, type in services.
3. In the Services (Local) list, locate Windows Search, right-click it, and select
   Properties.
4. Set the Startup type to Disabled.
5. Click Apply, then OK.

Disable SuperFetch.

Superfetch helps decrease boot time and makes programs load efficiently. However, it may cause high disk usage. Follow these steps to disable the service:

1. Right-click the Windows key and select Command Prompt (Admin).
2. In the command prompt window, type in net.exe stop superfetch and press
   Enter.

Please let me know the result so I can assist you further if needed.

Regards.

 

100% disk usage on Windows 10

I have been having 100% disk usage off and on for several months. I have tried all steps from every suggestion I can find and nothing resolves the issue. I finally reset to a fresh install of Windows (wiping out all of my files and programs). Here I am
with nothing on this computer, two programs open (Task Manager and Chrome), bouncing between 22-100% disk usage. Please help! I'm at my wits end! I have a Intel Core i7-7500 CPU @ 2.75 GHz, 2tb hard drive and 16 GB RAM