99-100% Disk Usage HDD

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My computer has been consistently running into issues with disk usage. I have tried the following solutions with no success at lowering the disk usage:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-3091477/fix-100-disk-usage-windows.html?xtor=EREC-8889
http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-3267507/fix-100-disc-usage-system-service.html

With 8GB of RAM, my computer's paging file is set to have an initial size of 8192 MB and maximum size of 12288 MB.

On a side note, my computer also often runs into memory issues and usually sits around 75% memory usage with only Google Chrome running.

 

[Multipack]

System spec? HDD model? Any processes in Task Manager accounting for high usage?

75% with 8gb is normal.

 

[cheese_puff]

System spec? HDD model? Any processes in Task Manager accounting for high usage?

75% with 8gb is normal.

HDD:

System Specs:

Task Manager:

 

[Colif]

Go to task manager>Performance> open resource monitor> look at disk usage on summary page and sort it by writes and show what it says is using most. You can expand the file description to show more detail.

Download Process explorer and run it as admin (it comes from Microsoft so its safe)

the default view is tree structure meaning like your task manager screen, it will show what processes are under service, but unlike the other one, it shows the ram usage of each part so you can see what is eating your hdd

Private bytes = actual ram usage
Working set = Ram + page file usage

This page shows what all the colours and headings mean, link at bottom of it shows how to use it to find problems. You can right click headers and run an av scan from within the program.

it looks like a memory leak.

 

[cheese_puff]

Go to task manager>Performance> open resource monitor> look at disk usage on summary page and sort it by writes and show what it says is using most. You can expand the file description to show more detail...

Sorted by private bytes

Sorted by working set