Disc T (Secondary drive, HDD) Reading / Writing at 100%

Sep 12, 2018
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I've tried to have this answered for months and nobody has helped me after asking me for further information and me giving that information.

I already used a SMART checker.

read / write speed around 4-12 kb/s on average.


I tried turning off Windows Search and some other program other threads said to turn off, and tried following some other guides I saw that others said worked (this is a while out now so I forget),
Only when I tried to open the T drive in file explorer, windows crashed.
I restarted, because windows crashed, and it was broken. I couldn't open to the login screen. I got blue screened and told that my drive was needing to be repaird and I couldn't repair it. I couldn't even install Linux to just get past the blue screen. I tried all the troubleshooting options for hours, then tried Linux install and that's when windows finally started working again. And at that time, T was functioning normally. Steam opened up immediately, I was able to play Overwatch without any issue.

Blizzard and Steam will either not open at all when I try to launch or they will simply take forever to open. Maybe anywhere from 5-30 minutes.
Steam (The program) is installed on C, but games are installed on T.
also, even now trying to install something from steam onto a different drive, it's moving extremely slowly.



Stats:
Operating system: Win 10 Pro
Operating system bit-system (32-bit, 64-bit etc.): 64
Processor: Intel Core i7-8700K
Ram: 24 GB
Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB
(C) Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD
(T) 3 TB Toshiba drive HDWD130
 
First I would go to resource monitor when this disk is being used (Reading / Writing at 100% ) and sort by disk usage and see if I could determine if there was an app or service using the disk....and if there was....take appropriate action.

If there wasn't....it may just be a failing hard drive.

 


https://i.imgur.com/3rqsB6q.png is what I see in resource manager. Nothing out of the ordinary other than Steam opening slowly. My main issue in trying to diagnose is that the disk with issues isn't the main disk. So if I look at what's using all my disk memory, it's talking about the C drive.