Question Cannot Access D: Drive, Showing 100% Usage in Task Manager

[Chronic_Sweg]

Hello all,

I have a C and D drive, both are M.2 SSD's. I have Windows installed on the C drive and originally intended to use the D drive as game storage. This has been an issue for quite some time. I cannot access the D drive at all in file explorer. If I click on it, file explorer becomes unresponsive. Additionally, in task manager, the D drive is showing 100% usage all the time. I've updated my BIOS, chipset, and other drivers, updated windows (on Windows 11), ran CHKDSK, ran SFC, tried all the basic "drive issue" troubleshooting. Earlier today I was able to format the drive and install a singular steam game onto the drive, but a few hours later the drive is once again not accessible and the game is no longer accessible from Steam. Additionally, sometimes upon startup I will get the "choose what to do with this media" pop-up message meant for removable/external hard drives, but the drive shows as an "Local Disk" in file explorer's properties.

Any idea on how to fix this?

 

[Lutfij]

Windows * and above had what's known as Memoryleak. The only way out is to see if a system restore to a point prior to when the issue cropped up or a full OS reinstall, after recreating your bootable USB installer for your OS.

MemoryLeak happens when the OS is corrupt and causes the memory usage, CPU usage or drive usage to go to 100%, sometimes al of them go to 100%, sometimes only one parameter.

 

[Bob.B]

Hello all,

I have a C and D drive, both are SSD's. I have Windows installed on the C drive and originally intended to use the D drive as game storage. This has been an issue for quite some time. I cannot access the D drive at all in file explorer. If I click on it, file explorer becomes unresponsive. Additionally, in task manager, the D drive is showing 100% usage all the time. I've updated my BIOS, chipset, and other drivers, updated windows (on Windows 11), ran CHKDSK, ran SFC, tried all the basic "drive issue" troubleshooting. Earlier today I was able to format the drive and install a singular steam game onto the drive, but a few hours later the drive is once again not accessible and the game is no longer accessible from Steam. Additionally, sometimes upon startup I will get the "choose what to do with this media" pop-up message meant for removable/external hard drives, but the drive shows as an "Local Disk" in file explorer's properties.

Any idea on how to fix this?

Assuming the D drive is a 2.5 disk reseat the data and power cables for the disk....both ends.

 

[Chronic_Sweg]

Assuming the D drive is a 2.5 disk reseat the data and power cables for the disk....both ends.

It is an M.2, I probably should have mentioned that lol

 

[SkyNetRising]

It is an M.2, I probably should have mentioned that lol

Please list model names of your drives.
You can find model names in Device Manger.

Then diagnose M.2 drives with appropriate manufacturer specific ssd tool software
(downloadable from manufacturer support web site).

 

[Chronic_Sweg]

Please list model names of your drives.
You can find model names in Device Manger.

Then diagnose M.2 drives with appropriate manufacturer specific ssd tool software
(downloadable from manufacturer support web site).

The C: drive is WDS100T3X0C

D: drive (the one having issues) is a Samsung 970 EVO Plus