Hard drive always at 100%

[Idk2095]

Basicly ever since I got my new pc, which was a year ago I had some other motherboard and psu
because they burned out after a week, so here are my new pc specs.
hard drive: TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 ATA device 695 gb free of 931
R7 260x
amd fx 4300
8 gb of ram
cx 500 psu
gigabyte 78lmt-usb3 motherboard

every since I got my pc my disk usage would go to 100% almost all the time, most of that time the program that would be using the highest disk usage would be only around 0.1-4 mb/s, but sometimes when I see a program using 60 mb/s its only around 50%. I ran 4 scans with avast premium, malware bytes, and super anti spyware, is the hard drive failing?

 

[SkyNetRising]

is the hard drive failing?

Use Resource Monitor to find out, what's causing 100% disk usage
(open Disk tab, Disk Activity section, order by column Total, and make File Names column fully visible).
Post screenshot.

Spoiler

It should look similar to this, just fix ordering by Total:

Usually 100% disk usage is caused by - windows updates, disk defragmenter, windows defender or windows indexing.

 

[Idk2095]

heres the picture of my resource montior http://imgur.com/a/9jMUx I schedule defragments every month, I used to defrag every day, but I heard that it can mess up your hard drive.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Did you see my example of Resource Monitor?
Disk Activity section is the important one. In your screenshot it is not visible.

BTW - disk usage is at 1% in your screenshot, so you don't have disk usage problems anymore.

 

[Idk2095]

it goes from 1% to 100 then back and fourth

 

[SkyNetRising]

Then get me appropriate screenshot of Disk Activity section, when there's 100% disk activity.

 

[homebrewdr]

I've been having the same issue on one of my laptop machines. Disk usage randomly goes up to 100% during gaming or during regular use and everything freezes up. Its a 7200 RPM Drive and not an SSD. Windows came pre-installed with no disc, so I'm not sure how to go about switching out the hard-drive with an SSD. I believe this is a common problem with windows 10/spinning drives. I'm not sure what to do either. The laptop is an alienware 15 r2.

I did notice that prior to the disk going to 100%, I often see "Intel(R)Dynamic Platform and Thermal Framework Utility Application" using up about 30-40% of CPU usage. I've ran anti-malware, ant-virus, anti-root kits, and system file checks. On my to-do list is to run a disk check overnight...but it would be inconvenient for me to tie up the machine for more than a night's sleep. Any help appreciated.