100% Disk Usage on Windows 10, What Is Going On?

[VinsCool]

Anyway. I guess I have no other choice than getting a new HDD I lost a couple of files during the copy process.

I'll still whipe my C:/ partition and reinstall an OS, until shit refuses to work for good.

 

[Arras]

Yeah - I've had the exact same issue before - super high disk usage, almost unusably slow PC. Turned out hard drive was trashed, had to buy a new hard drive. If I remember correctly, the reason it's constantly at 100% disk usage is because at some point, it'll try to load a corrupted file, and instead of giving up, it'll try to load it over and over or do other weird shit, and it takes forever for it to give up on loading the file. It has nothing to do with viruses, Windows 10 or drivers (although chances are some of those could cause similar symptoms). Do NOT try to wipe the hard drive and reuse it. It's dead.

 

[VinsCool]

Yeah - I've had the exact same issue before - super high disk usage, almost unusably slow PC. Turned out hard drive was trashed, had to buy a new hard drive. If I remember correctly, the reason it's constantly at 100% disk usage is because at some point, it'll try to load a corrupted file, and instead of giving up, it'll try to load it over and over or do other weird shit, and it takes forever for it to give up on loading the file. It has nothing to do with viruses, Windows 10 or drivers (although chances are some of those could cause similar symptoms). Do NOT try to wipe the hard drive and reuse it. It's dead.

Exactly as I feared. Dammit.

So I was right all along. Time to buy a new HDD. My SATA2USB cable would be useful.

 

[Luckkill4u]

Yeah a bad HDD. Kinda what I thought it was. Maybe you should upgrade to a nice sized SSD if you like the laptop. SSD prices have been going down lately.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S7

 

[VinsCool]

Yeah a bad HDD. Kinda what I thought it was. Maybe you should upgrade to a nice sized SSD if you like the laptop. SSD prices have been going down lately.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S7

I'll definitely go forth and buy a good drive.

My HDD is a Hitachi and I heard those were crap.

 

[Luckkill4u]

I'll definitely go forth and buy a good drive.

My HDD is a Hitachi and I heard those were crap.

Yeah I don't buy Hitachi drives. I actually just bought 2 1tb Seagate drives at NCIX just a moment ago for $70 each. Not a bad deal but laptop drives can cost more. I'd still recommend a SSD though. Faster, last longer and no moving parts. Much more laptop friendly.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S7

 

[VinsCool]

Yeah I don't buy Hitachi drives. I actually just bought 2 1tb Seagate drives at NCIX just a moment ago for $70 each. Not a bad deal but laptop drives can cost more. I'd still recommend a SSD though. Faster, last longer and no moving parts. Much more laptop friendly.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S7

I'll see

Anyway thanks everyone for the help.

 

[xy2_]

Do you still have your HDD? In that case, you didn't properly format it would be the most likely issue. Pop a Linux Mint (https://www.linuxmint.com/) livecd (or whatever your distro of choice is), insert back your HDD.

Run the live cd, then open a terminal and type "fdisk -l" to see the name of your hard drive.
Run gparted, select your drive and delete all partitions.
Once done, run "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=10M count=1", replacing /dev/sda with the name of your drive. This will wipe your MBR and a bunch of stuff after, just in case.

You can reinstall your OS of choice after this; I would recommend Mint as stated above. If you still get problems with drive read and your drive starts making sounds, then the drive is indeed faulty; if not, then you're fine.

 

[VinsCool]

Do you still have your HDD? In that case, you didn't properly format it would be the most likely issue. Pop a Linux Mint (https://www.linuxmint.com/) livecd (or whatever your distro of choice is), insert back your HDD.

Run the live cd, then open a terminal and type "fdisk -l" to see the name of your hard drive.
Run gparted, select your drive and delete all partitions.
Once done, run "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=10M count=1", replacing /dev/sda with the name of your drive. This will wipe your MBR and a bunch of stuff after, just in case.

You can reinstall your OS of choice after this; I would recommend Mint as stated above. If you still get problems with drive read and your drive starts making sounds, then the drive is indeed faulty; if not, then you're fine.

It's a GPT HDD already


So far I already reformated the thing. Made my partitions. I kept a 500GB untouched for my data backup. Made the Windows partitions for UEFI at the installer, and it inatalled fine. Reads are still rather slow though. So before I lose my data, I'll juat this computer untouched for now

Once I get my new HDD, I'll go for the dual boot plan

 

[RandomUser]

You just need to write zeros on first 20K sectors, actually I think just the first sector if my memory serves me correctly, to remove GPT partitions or MBR and be able to reformat GPT drive. Do not need to even write to the whole drive just to repartitions and reformat it. On the other hand zero filling the drive may force the drive to reallocate sectors from the spare pool and mark the bad sectors unusable, due to finding bad sectors that wasn't found before.

 

[Deleted member 668561]

sounds like a virus, seems lowkey destructive, something like this going long enough, will burnout an hdd

boot a live usb (linux,ubuntu), backup files, then re partition and reformat

 

[VinsCool]

@aadz93 the problem has been solved over 5 years ago, it was HDD failure.

Thread locked since I no longer need help for this anyway. Lol