Question How to stop Disk usage going to 100%?

e.eldridge04spam

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I have had this problem from the beginning of my build but my pc is going to 100% disk usage, im am starting to think it was a building problem or os problem as i have try so many other fixes but none of them work. just ask if u need specs
 

popatim

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Have you scanned for malware, spyware, miners, and bad sectors?

Bring up Resource Monitor, go the the Disk tab and see whats reading & writing to the Drive. It usually sorts on the Total bytes read and written column with the highest offender at the top. there are two sections: 'Processes with Disk Activity' and 'Disk Activity' to help isolate the issue.
 
I can't get a drive to show 100% no matter what I dump to it in normal copying/moving folders/files, etc....(granted, these are internal SATA connected drives, I have no USB connected drives to test currently..)

If one is giving issues, I'd be looking at CrystalDiskInfo and seeing if it's health is degraded, if any sectors are bad/uncorrectable, etc...; often, drives that have suffered soft crashes have precious few hours remaining where data can be recovered/read/transferred, and doing long surface scans, disk checks, tests, etc., simply accelerates their demise...

A drive should be able to transfer a batch of files in a predictable amount of reasonable time...CrystalDIskMark has short and long tests that can be run to determine serviceability, but, worry about those after data is backed up when in doubt!
 

e.eldridge04spam

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Feb 22, 2018
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I can't get a drive to show 100% no matter what I dump to it in normal copying/moving folders/files, etc....(granted, these are internal SATA connected drives, I have no USB connected drives to test currently..)

If one is giving issues, I'd be looking at CrystalDiskInfo and seeing if it's health is degraded, if any sectors are bad/uncorrectable, etc...; often, drives that have suffered soft crashes have precious few hours remaining where data can be recovered/read/transferred, and doing long surface scans, disk checks, tests, etc., simply accelerates their demise...

A drive should be able to transfer a batch of files in a predictable amount of reasonable time...CrystalDIskMark has short and long tests that can be run to determine serviceability, but, worry about those after data is backed up when in doubt!
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sometimes it goes up to 100% when watching yt, playing a game or something like that and makes the rest of the pc slow but sometimes it goes to like 3% for 1 second and starts to rise again