[SOLVED] 100% Disk usage with New Hard Drive

[YaminotYugi]

Hello,
I recently replaced my laptop hard drive with another hard drive because it died and I did a fresh clean install of windows on the hard drive and I noticed that I see my disk is spike up to 100% even when idle on desktop it causes my pc to run slow and makes thing take forever to load.
I've tried everything and don't know what to do next since this is a new hard drive and I don't wanna waste money on another one.
My Hard Drive is a 7200 RPM 320GB Toshiba Sata Hard Drive and the one before that was a 5400 rpm 500 GB Toshiba Sata Hard Drive.

I've tried nearly everything. disabling superfetch, disabling windows search, disabling windows update changing battery balanced to performance, installing updates and tons of other things i can't remember :/

 

[Ralston18]

Find out what application is using the disk drive.

Use Task Manager and Resource Monitor to identify what application is grabbing disk performance and hogging the resource.

Or uses the disk and then fails to "release" the resource. Could be some software bug or corruption.

Check the Startup tab in Task Manager. Look for some unexpected or unknown application being launched at startup.

 

[YaminotYugi]

I don't see anything usual in the start up tab and the resource monitor only shows system, Msmpeng.exe, and svchost and other programs nothing seem to be using up a lot of the disk. do u need to see pictures of resource monitor to see whats causing the problem?

 

[dudeman509]

This is normal Windows 10 behavior until it calms down from loading stuff. Even on a clean install, it can take 5-10 minutes on a spinning disk after startup.

I'd highly recommend a SSD in 2019. They are so cheap now.

 

[YaminotYugi]

its been a hour and the disk still spike up to 100% also it never did this with my old hard drive I have a theory that this is cause by my computer updating to the latest windows update because on my old hardrive my windows version wasn't up to date. But I dunno.

 

[frozensun]

My friend just post us the screenshot of process list of task manager,and there you will see,what process is using HDD at 100 % if you are on W10.
I had same problem on one of my laptops but it wasn't working for an hour.It was more like 20 min.I replaced it with SSD and problem was solved,then I figured out testing that HDD was bad.

 

[koson123]

your problem is the 320gb part of that not the rpm a smaller hard drive is just slower. the only thing i can tell you is either use linux or better yet spend $20 on an ssd. here is a good one. if you cant get a ssd and cant use linux wipe the drive and reinstall from scratch uninstall virtually everything especially onedrive as it is a resource hog disable everything and hopefully u can drop below 100% then