Question 100% Disk Usage

[MasterOblivious]

I know that this question has been asked before and I've looked at the answers that helped other people and nothing seems to be making long term change to my issue. I can't get System to stop being such a disk hog. I just reinstalled Windows 10 maybe about a week ago and it was fine for it's age (I built it in 2016) but about two days ago it's started having issues. It seems like I can't do anything without System spiking disk usage to 100%. At one point it spiked to over 10mb/s and all I was doing was shutting down a game because it had started stuttering.

Here are my computer's specs:

32GB RAM​

Intel i7-6700k 4GHz CPU​

Gigabyte Gaming GeForce GTX 1070 8GB GPU​

2TB SSD Hard drive​

64-bit Windows Home​

Please let me know if there is any other information that would be helpful.

Things I have tried:

Check disk and fix in command prompt

Ran for about 3hrs and no change​

Microsoft Defender Offline Scan

Nothing found​

Disable Cloud-based protection in Windows Defender

No noticeable change​

Adjust Visual Effects

Small noticeable change​

Check for updates

No new updates​

Set power settings for high performance

No noticeable change​

Run Performance Monitor

All passed​

All that showed for disk is "Disk I/O is less than 100 (read/write) per second on disk 0" Reads 6.3/sec Writes 15.0/sec​

Set Windows Defender to scan when computer is idle

Small noticeable change​

Disable Windows Search

No change​

Disable Superfetch

No change​

Fix PCI Firmware bug

No change​

Disable Windows Tips & Tricks

No change​

Disable unused background apps

No change​

Delete temporary files

Small temporary change (not many temp files)​

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I have no idea what else to try and won't have any money to take it to a repair place for another week. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

 

[hotaru.hino]

Do you have another computer you can put the disk into? You don't have to boot into Windows using it, just enough to get it to show up and run something like Crystal Disk Mark to see if it's even performing as expected.

 

[MasterOblivious]

Do you have another computer you can put the disk into? You don't have to boot into Windows using it, just enough to get it to show up and run something like Crystal Disk Mark to see if it's even performing as expected.

Unfortunately, I only have the one computer. I can see if my brother in law will let me try plugging it into his computer

 

[stonecarver]

What does task manages show as the source of the high Disk usage.

 

[MasterOblivious]

What does task manages show as the source of the high Disk usage.

It's almost always System. If I decide I want to record the last couple minutes of gameplay then it's Nvidia Container

 

[JohnBonhamsGhost]

normally a constant or intermittent disk usage spike is due to an infection of the system.
Windows incorporated Defender isn't always in depth enough to find infected data.

if you notice any particular "normal" process eating up disk usage then it could be due to that host application being corrupted or malfunctioning in some way.

try System File Checker and DISM to route out possible OS corruption.
could also always be a disk that is just failing.

 

[stonecarver]

If it's steam you might have rundll.32 still latching when you shut down certain games. Again in your task manager after gaming and or when disk usages spikes go down the list under Background Processes and if rundll.32 is there just right click and end process.

As far as Nvidia container I don't use the recorder.

 

[MasterOblivious]

normally a constant or intermittent disk usage spike is due to an infection of the system.
Windows incorporated Defender isn't always in depth enough to find infected data.

if you notice any particular "normal" process eating up disk usage then it could be due to that host application being corrupted or malfunctioning in some way.

try System File Checker and DISM to route out possible OS corruption.
could also always be a disk that is just failing.

It's not constant and I wouldn't really call it intermittent either. If I stop using the computer, then the usage drops to a max of 1%. As soon as I start doing something, it'll start climbing. It's also done this before. It got to the point where I completely reinstalled Windows 10. I even dabbled a bit with Linux OSs and would get the same issue

There's a couple of processes that look out of place for disk usage but when I checked their file location, they led to legit system folders. I also haven't really been using my PC for much beyond gaming so I'm not sure where it could have picked up a virus.

I'll give those a try when I boot the computer up tomorrow.

How would I check for a failing disk?

 

[MasterOblivious]

If it's steam you might have rundll.32 still latching when you shut down certain games. Again in your task manager after gaming and or when disk usages spikes go down the list under Background Processes and if rundll.32 is there just right click and end process.

As far as Nvidia container I don't use the recorder.

I do see rundll.32 jump up near the top on occassion when I'm playing a game but it's not every time.

I'm also confused as to why Nvidia would suddenly start causing me trouble. A couple days ago I had the recorder set for 10mins at high quality. Now 5mins at low quality causes the disk usage to jump and my game to stutter. Updating the driver did nothing

 

[stonecarver]

How would I check for a failing disk?

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I do see rundll.32 jump up near the top on occassion when I'm playing a game but it's not every time.

So on those times ----after--- playing games where rundell.32 shows up close it like I said and if it's your issue the high disk usages will go right down to normal. Like you took your foot off the gas peddle per say.