Disk Usage 100%

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  1. swftre

    Question Brand new SSD write speeds extremely slow.

    Just got a brand new SSD earlier (a 960GB Kingston A400) and I'm just installing a few games onto it. But then after installing two games, the write speeds dropped to at an average of about 8-12 mb/s, and both the active time and average response time hovered in the really high values (90-100%...
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    Question Spikes in OS disk usage, following a boot from the wrong drive.

    Specs: AMD Ryzen 3 16gb RAM NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1050 Ti MSI B350 GAMING PLUS 4.0 Hello, I'm aware there's been many forum posts about the 100% disk usage issue, but I've followed countless "fixes" and they haven't worked so I though I'd make an entry myself. About two days ago, I turned on...
  3. Re0x

    Question Need help -- High disk usage while idle

    When i'm doing absolutely nothing on the pc the disk usage goes to 100%. i see that the process "System(ntoskrnl.exe)" is using the most. I left my pc running for a while with task manager opened. When i went into the "performance" tab i saw this Can this be the cause of a virus? please help.
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    [SOLVED] Beeping sound and 100% disk usage

    I have replaced my HDD with an SSD, after this I noticed a beeping sound coming from my laptop followed by 100% disk usage, and the laptop freezes for a certain period (could be minutes) and then returns to normal, this happens a couple of times a day or whenever there is any kind of load on the...
  5. C

    [SOLVED] Disk Usage 100% (I have tried common solutions)

    Hello, so my computer one day randomly started to get the 100% disk usage error, and I have no idea why. I have tried the common solutions (disabling windows search, superfetch, increasing virtual memory, chkdsk.exe command and the StorAHCI driver). I have also tried formatting my pc and using...
  6. blacking

    [SOLVED] 100% SSD Disk Usage in COD:MW and others

    Hello guys, I've been having a problem whenever I try to play either PUBG, Warzone or even sometimes Global Offensive which is getting a disk usage of 100%, which, as you can imagine, makes the pc unusable. In Global Offensive it makes the game occasionally crash (when in fact spikes to 100%)...
  7. Jordan_stewart

    [SOLVED] 100% disk usage when opening programs

    Hi everyone, Having a little bit of a nightmare with my new PC build - essentially I've upgraded the processor, motherboard, ram and introduced an SSD for the operating system to run off of, but now my old HDD with all my files consistently runs at 100% when I open programs, or launch games...
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    [SOLVED] What my PC is running 100% Disk Usage...

    Hi! my computer is running 100% Disk Usage. and tried everything.... to stopping and disabling some service, to performing risky pc tasks. my computer is an ASUS K55A-SX096R and its age is like 8 or 9... It's an Intel i5-3210m... oh i forgot, every time I turn on the laptop it is constantly on...
  9. L

    Question COD Warzone occasional freeze ,ms goes to 999 ,c disk usage 100%

    I am getting these moments that render the game unplayable,so basically the game at random moments goes to 0fps 999ms and the resource monitor is telling me that my ssd(C:) goes to 100% disk usage(the game is on another drive),lasts for a couple of seconds and then returns to normal. Any ideas...
  10. C

    Question 100% disk usage when downloading.

    I was having problems with destiny 2 where the frames, for some reason, dropped to 15-20 permanently. I decided to try redownloading it, thinking it was the game. The download rate would hump from 0 to 5-6 mbps, back to 0. This made steam force stop the download, then crash. In task manager...
  11. Jozefyxg

    Question Pc using 50+% of my disk, the apps being slow and i cant see disk D and C in file explorer

    So today i accidentally shut off my pc via the power supply, i re booted but was stuck at the loading part for a while until i did a repair on the disk. After the repaired the disk i managed to boot up into windows. I noticed that apps were opening really really sloow(i couldnt even open steam)...
  12. M

    [SOLVED] 100% disk usage during Windows update

    Heya, Since a while ago the disk usage of my pc starts to ramp up to a 100% and stays there untill I power off the pc manually. This happens immediately everytime when Windows update tries to install update KB4520008. This means I cannot use my pc for more then a few minutes untill Windows...
  13. Z

    [SOLVED] ntoskrnl.exe High Disk Usage

    My laptop runs for a short while (~30 minutes) after booting without much of a problem, but shortly after begins running hard and its fan goes into overdrive when I'm watching a video, I open a file (anything), etc. When I check task manager, the "disk" usage is always at least above 95%. After...
  14. R

    Question [Windows 8.1] Disk usage goes to 100%. System seems to be behind it.

    My laptop lags when it happens. From my experience, when I use Firefox and have 4-5 tabs open with one of them being Facebook, the problem arises. But when I close the Facebook tab, it disappears. Even having 5 non-FB tabs running, the problem does not appear. Lags go in 3-5 intervals; lags or...
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    Question HDD usage goes up to 100 after my pc is not able to start.

    Hello, so the other the day my (desktop)pc turn off completely while I was using it, afterwards, it refused to start, I tried some basic stuff like checking plugs, turning the PSU on/off but nothing worked, so I decided to take the computer apart, clean it, and then try again, it worked, but...
  16. E

    Question Problems with system drive usage ( 100% at startup)

    So, I've had this issue for a long time, where the disk usage is at 100% with only a few mb/s and the response time is extreme. Now, let me say this. The problem doesn't most likely occur from any specific software that I would have downloaded. Note that my desktop PC has an SSD, and my laptop...
  17. GlitchCo

    Question Random freezes in Gaming (Windows 10)

    So, I know this has been asked many, many times. Yet I tried all the options given to me on this forum and other sites without any good result. Alright, here we go again. Whenever I play a game, and something new happens in the game (so I assume the game needs to change data or something), it...
  18. J

    Question Windows 10 freezing randomly 100% disk usage

    Well i've just build a completely new pc and installed Win 10. And every few minutes or secs everything freezes, i usually can move mouse but cant send any input or do anything during the freeze, although voice call on discord keep working. I've looked what happens during this freezes and it...
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    Question My SSD Causes My PC to Freeze

    Ever since I got an SSD to replace my HDD (for my main drive with windows 10; I have a secondary HDD) My PC often freezes for 5-10Seconds while my SSD's Disk Usage goes to 100%, I have scanned for viruses with several AV's because I was convinced that was the culprit but I have found none I then...
  20. SoumyaHD

    Question High Disk Usage

    I have a insider build 18362.xx and a normal october 2018 17763.xx build. Both consume lots of memory at least 2GB in ideal condition and 100% disk uasge and also how to shut down data collection and telemetry permanently? Slow app opening times and also slow booting and it takes 15 minutes to...
  21. A

    Question 100% Disk Usage (and malfuncioning fans)

    I bought a mid/high end PC around an year ago. Issue #1: Few weeks after purchase, it started making A LOT of noise when it would turn on, and the fans started malfunctioning. The lights would turn off/on randomly, it would decelerate, then accelerate, in syncrony with the loud noise. Anyway...
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    How to estimate the number of downloads of an app in ONE day?

    Apps on Play Store or iTunes. They only provide total numbers with wide band like from 500,000 to 1,000,000. That's a big difference. Anyone knows? Thanks a lot!