Windows 10 100 Percent Disk Usage Problem

Anonymous
2018-02-21T04:28:45+00:00

Hi ..

Disk showing 100% and slowing down my system everytime . I have tried some of the fixes posted in google but nothing worked so far. 

tried almost everything suggested in - https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/100-disk-usage-windows-10-fixed/

Task manager indicate some times single windows update , some times single system windows process takes almost 98% of disk . 

I killed all background processes once and it seems resolved for a while but its resurfacing. 

Please help me to resolve this .

Thanks 

Ganesh

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Performance and system failures

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-11-01T16:59:56+00:00

    There are people that gets the same issue even after changing it, so bad idea man

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-11-02T16:52:43+00:00

    Hello, I had this same problem and there's no point in trying to guess, if you want to find out what service or program is using the disk, then follow these steps:

    -Download Process Explorer, run as admin

    -When you open Process Explorer, go into View, Select Columns, Process I/O and checkmark the Read and Write boxes

    -The disk read/write columns will show you all the programs that read and write from/to your disk, sort the column by the highest read/write operations, the culprit program will show a high number of read/write operations that is causing the disk to be at 100%, locate the program, suspend it, if your disk usage goes down that means the problem is that program, if not then keep testing other programs with high read/writes operations until you find the culprit

    I hope this helps.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-11-03T04:56:24+00:00

    Thanks! I used this tool once before and forgot about it. It's a great tool... and free! You get it in a Zip file and need to unzip it. For those who let their WinZip trial expire under new WIndows 10 (like I did), there is a freeware program called 7-Zip that does the job. To get the READ and WRITE columns added to your  Process Explorer screen you just start the program and go into View, Select Columns, Process I/O and checkmark the Read and Write boxes.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-11-03T16:29:11+00:00

    Cool, and I used your "To get the READ and WRITE columns etc.." in my reply for better clearance.  Thanks for the addition

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-11-14T02:55:41+00:00

    I got this problem for years. Tried so many solutions but none of them could help.

    This is win10 issue with HDD. Microsoft is pushing us to use SSD. They will never fix this.

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