Question CPU at 100% after installing new hard drive

Jan 27, 2020
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So I decided to buy a new Western Digital 2tb Hard Drive. After I got done installing it I decided to install CS GO and Apex on it first.
When I started playing CS GO (Apex was still downloading) I noticed some stuttering and checked task manager and saw that my CPU was at 100%.
I restarted my computer and at idle it still goes to 100%
Why is that?
My CPU is a Ryzen 5 2600

Pictures:
PC on idle
1st picture is when I launched chrome
View: https://imgur.com/gallery/ElG0iW2
 
It does the same thing
100% sometimes at idle without the hard drive
It's probably Chrome doing it's "harmful programs" and "malware" scan. It's the reason I tossed Chrome in favor of Brave, which is based on Chrome, but without most of the google garbage. Chrome would constantly scan and all I could hear was my storage drives sounding like banshees wailing for hours until I figured out it was Chrome scanning all my drives. I would uninstall Chrome and either install Firefox or try Brave if you prefer the Chrome UI. https://brave.com/
 
Jan 22, 2020
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Is your hard drive brand new or used new?? I had a drive go bad and it was causing my CPU to run at 100% when I was copying files or running anything off it.
 
Jan 22, 2020
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It's probably Chrome doing it's "harmful programs" and "malware" scan. It's the reason I tossed Chrome in favor of Brave, which is based on Chrome, but without most of the google garbage. Chrome would constantly scan and all I could hear was my storage drives sounding like banshees wailing for hours until I figured out it was Chrome scanning all my drives. I would uninstall Chrome and either install Firefox or try Brave if you prefer the Chrome UI. https://brave.com/
I've never had an issue with chrome, maybe I've just been lucky.
 
Your Kaspersky may have been configured for idle scan which is normal and with a new drive it will scan in the background. Bitdefender likewise will do an initial full scan on install (so this is overhead associated with installing a new HDD) - you can tinker with the scan settings to make it less intensive. either way it should resolve itself once the AV makes its first clean pass
 

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