- Jun 25, 2016
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Hey all.
Recently I've been having some pretty annoying problems on my Windows 10 desktop relating to my C drive (HDD) having some very large usage spikes, often to 100%. RAM and CPU are fine. However, the disk transfer rate rarely jumps above a few megabytes It's only seemed to happen recently and I first noticed it a week or so ago and it seems to be getting worse.
I'm worried my HDD may be dying, but I need to rule out all other possibilities first. It's most noticable in some PC games (mainly Overwatch) I've been playing lately (framerate divebombs from the 100s to still frames randomly - unplayable), but it also happens at other times making me doubt it's the games at fault (note that the same games ran flawlessly for me last month). I don't think it's the game specifically but I do think the game uses the most resources on my PC and if it gets worse I'll start to see my pc choke against even lighter loads. My network can be a bit jumpy at times however, and while that would create lag, I doubt it would give me any issues with disk usage or framerate stuttering, would it?
So far I've done HDD diagnostic checks, which come up with no negative results. I've also tried a multitude of solutions I've found online, such as disabling superfetch, windows search, notifications, prefetch on google chrome, and windows update. I've set my power plan from balanced to high performance. I've tried uninstalling skype. Nothing I've tried so far makes a noticable difference and I'm out of ideas. It happens in-game by far the most, but occasionally happens when I'm just on the desktop doing nothing. It's infrequent enough to make me wonder if it could in fact be an issue more with the game, but it's so hard for me to pin down what the issue is.
I sincerely hope it's not just my HDD crapping out on me, which it may be, but I want to be certain before I have to go through the whole process of transferring my files and reinstalling OS on the new one.
I really could use some help here. Thanks in advance.
Recently I've been having some pretty annoying problems on my Windows 10 desktop relating to my C drive (HDD) having some very large usage spikes, often to 100%. RAM and CPU are fine. However, the disk transfer rate rarely jumps above a few megabytes It's only seemed to happen recently and I first noticed it a week or so ago and it seems to be getting worse.
I'm worried my HDD may be dying, but I need to rule out all other possibilities first. It's most noticable in some PC games (mainly Overwatch) I've been playing lately (framerate divebombs from the 100s to still frames randomly - unplayable), but it also happens at other times making me doubt it's the games at fault (note that the same games ran flawlessly for me last month). I don't think it's the game specifically but I do think the game uses the most resources on my PC and if it gets worse I'll start to see my pc choke against even lighter loads. My network can be a bit jumpy at times however, and while that would create lag, I doubt it would give me any issues with disk usage or framerate stuttering, would it?
So far I've done HDD diagnostic checks, which come up with no negative results. I've also tried a multitude of solutions I've found online, such as disabling superfetch, windows search, notifications, prefetch on google chrome, and windows update. I've set my power plan from balanced to high performance. I've tried uninstalling skype. Nothing I've tried so far makes a noticable difference and I'm out of ideas. It happens in-game by far the most, but occasionally happens when I'm just on the desktop doing nothing. It's infrequent enough to make me wonder if it could in fact be an issue more with the game, but it's so hard for me to pin down what the issue is.
I sincerely hope it's not just my HDD crapping out on me, which it may be, but I want to be certain before I have to go through the whole process of transferring my files and reinstalling OS on the new one.
I really could use some help here. Thanks in advance.
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