Disk at 100% and pc keeps shutting down with no warning

[MrTwicez]

im using windows 10, and my pc keeps turning off without warning. went to task manager and Disk was at 100%. Not sure if this is related.

 

[clarkjd]

Windows needs a certain amount of free space on your HDD in order to operate. Windows is shutting down, to keep your data safe, because it was needing to write something to the disk, but couldn't find enough free space.



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[indsup]

Are you talking about space or activity? In task manager i would think you are talking about activity not space. Task manager doesn't show space usage only activity. This may not have a correlation to what you trouble is but is somewhere to start. Do you have drive indexing enabled? If you do you will probably have high activity until it is fully indexed. You most likely have another issue other than drive activity.

 

[smorizio]

try booting into safe mode see if the error still there. or boot into the bios look at your cpu temps there if there not in the 30-50c range the cooler may have fallen off.

 

[MrTwicez]

Windows needs a certain amount of free space on your HDD in order to operate. Windows is shutting down, to keep your data safe, because it was needing to write something to the disk, but couldn't find enough free space.



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Ok, so you are saying to clear space on my pc? If so, then how would I do so if I can;'t even get to the start menu? Is there some sort of safe mode I can enable?

 

[clarkjd]

Windows needs a certain amount of free space on your HDD in order to operate. Windows is shutting down, to keep your data safe, because it was needing to write something to the disk, but couldn't find enough free space.



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Ok, so you are saying to clear space on my pc? If so, then how would I do so if I can;'t even get to the start menu? Is there some sort of safe mode I can enable?

You could boot to a linux distro that only uses a CD-ROM drive to boot. Then look for a folder named "TEMP " or Temporary Internet Files. You can then delete them without harming any other data. that should free up enough space for you to boot windows.

 

[MrTwicez]

Windows needs a certain amount of free space on your HDD in order to operate. Windows is shutting down, to keep your data safe, because it was needing to write something to the disk, but couldn't find enough free space.



edited for typo

Ok, so you are saying to clear space on my pc? If so, then how would I do so if I can;'t even get to the start menu? Is there some sort of safe mode I can enable?

You could boot to a linux distro that only uses a CD-ROM drive to boot. Then look for a folder named "TEMP " or Temporary Internet Files. You can then delete them without harming any other data. that should free up enough space for you to boot windows.

And how does one boot to a linux distro?

 

[clarkjd]

Ypu can download a bootable ISO image from the distro's website, Ubuntu for one. Burn the distro to a cd. I use CDBurnerXP to do this. Put the bootable disk in your optical drive & reboot. You may have to go into your BIOS and set the optical drive as the first bootable drive.

 

[MrTwicez]

try booting into safe mode see if the error still there. or boot into the bios look at your cpu temps there if there not in the 30-50c range the cooler may have fallen off.

I'm in the bios mode, how do I check this?