Disk Usage at 100%. Tried all known fixes.

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So I've had this issue for a while now and I have tried everything apart from replacing the HDD because it's expensive business and I want to eliminate all possibilities before I purchase a new one. I have disabled all the known services to potentially cause 100% disk usage, I have ran checks on the storage drive as well as making sure ALL my drivers are up to date, I have made the necessary changes in settings to Chrome/Skype and I have also reset my PC and reinstalled Windows. So at this point I'm kind of at a loss. I figure if I can't find a fix then it may be the HDD and I should look to swap it out for another HDD/SSD. Any help or ideas would be very much appreciated, thank you.
 
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Open Resource Monitor, switch to disk tab, locate Disk Activity section, order it by column Total, make file names fully visible and post screenshot.
That will tell, what process is causing most of disk activity and what exactly it is doing.
The Resource Monitor window should look similar to this (just order by column Total):
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Also you may want to check health of your drive. Use HDtune health and post screenshot.
 
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So a lot of the time the processes are always swapping over. Usually it is whatever application that I have just opened is what causes 100% disk usage. I've captured a few screenshots and from this it seems like Microsoft office services are using up a lot but I had the issue before I installed office features.

https://postimg.org/image/3o6pk3ein/
https://postimg.org/image/enrwvox7z/
 
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It is always changing. It is usually whatever process I have just started.
 
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yeah it's difficult to time it because the disk runs at 100% usage when I'm running an application or exiting an application e.g. running a game
ran a check of the drive and it's coming back with no errors etc.
 
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What you are describing is normal. Spikes to 100% happen constantly because storage is almost always a bottleneck. I also want to make sure you aren't confusing disk activity with disk space. 100% disk activity is the drive working to write or read data and should be happening frequently. So nothing is wrong with your system.
 
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So how can I prevent the spikes? Because I can, say, start an application like a game and the 100% disk usage (disk activity) will be constantly slowing the computer and it becomes unresponsive.
 
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Just re-running the scan now. Will post the results once it has finished. So if I get a SSD should that help prevent the computer from slowing down or becoming unresponsive when I'm running a heavy application?
 
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How much RAM do you have?
 
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8GB DDR3
 
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HDtune health section doesn't require any scanning. It's the list with S.M.A.R.T. parameters.

SSD helps a lot. All disk activities will finish much faster. That includes system booting, windows updates, indexing, windows defender, antivirus and more.
 
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Oh, my bad I was running an error scan.

https://postimg.org/image/4aeiibmjz/
https://postimg.org/image/fzii69qdb/
 
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I've ordered an SSD, it should be arriving tomorrow, hopefully that will fix the issue. Would it make sense to keep the HDD in the computer but transfer all the heavy usage programs, such as game applications, to the SSD?
 
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It's 500GB, the same as my HDD. If I kept the games on my HDD, would it not have the same issue as it is having now? Sorry, I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to this.
 
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