Windows 10: Windows 10 reason for reading HDD when installed in SSD

Hi everyone,

I have Windows 10 installed on an SSD drive, everything is installed on the SSD except my games libraries wich are on a HDD.

It has the fall update installed (and all updates available also installed).

For some reason windows is constantly reading the HDD and slows everything down (specially in games), i know it's the HDD because i hear it lound & clear, not based on the HDD LED that will blink also with SDD access.

This instalation is the same i had on the last 3 motherboard/cpu combos i had, it was running originaly on a kingston SATA 120Gb SSD, and is now on a Samsung Evo 960 M2 MVNE 250GB SSD (i cloned the content from the kingston to the samsung).

I think the problem started when i switched the SSDs, and i had the problem on my previous motherboard/CPU.

The System is in dual-boot with Kodi LibreELEC, the boot partition and both systems are on the SSD, as i said, only the games libraries are on the HDD.

When i run Kodi LibreElec the HDD is never accessed.

I tried disabling the page file on the HDD, but it is still being constantly used, i tried troubleshooting what is accessing the HDD and all i saw are windows processes, i just don't know why, do you guys have any clues where to look.

If any further information/detail is needed just say so and i will fill in the details.

Many thanks in advance!

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Is there a way to fix this without re-installing windows.

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Welcome to the forum. It could be indexing files, or defragging use task manager see whats doing it

 

Thanks!

In my experience Indexing normally doesn't slow everything down, task manager says the processes are all windows related, i just dont't know why.
I'll take a note of what processes are accessing , and post them here.