Question New installed W11 on sdd, D drive (HDD) goes to the 100% in seconds

[Emily_Vin]

After my struggle with windows 11 i reinstalled W11 with success.
But now i'm seeing that my D drive when w11 starts maxes out to 100% ?
I've run checkdisk and even reinstalled w11 again with all the updates but it still happens?
(C drive is ssd, D drive is a HDD)

Is there anyway i can see what program is using that disk?
Malware scans also didn't give anything.
The drive is encrypted with bitlocker and when unlocking it (and getting access again) the drive jumps to the 80-100%
Screenshot added that is my new installed w11 after a couple of seconds.
https://gyazo dot com/955508172e755ab269440221b7b23c68

What would be the best solution here?

 

[rgd1101]

what is on d drive?

 

[Emily_Vin]

My personal files, photo's, video's work related files, steam games, etc and its impossible that there is malware etc on it because i've scanned it a couple of days ago with no hits.
Also ran the HP diagnostic tools (just incase my hd is dying) but that doesn't seem to be the problem either

 

[punkncat]

When you installed W11 again, did you disconnect the HDD?
Check the partitions to see if the OS parked anything on it like page, etc.

 

[Emily_Vin]

When you installed W11 again, did you disconnect the HDD?
Check the partitions to see if the OS parked anything on it like page, etc.

Yes i did, i was a bit scared to format the D drive.
I turned my pc off, disconnected it and when w11 was installed i turned it off again and reconnected it.
could that have messed up the order?

This is what disk management says
https://gyazo dot com/d7b98aa11351b4cb554b0b8ad0764b4c

Would it be possible to fix this error without to much problems?
Don't care if i have to install w11 again because its a fresh install anyway

 

[USAFRet]

Please upload your pics to imgur.com, post the link here.
gyazo has issues.

 

[SkyNetRising]

What would be the best solution here?

Remove bitlocker.

Can you check drive health with HDtune (health section)?
(upload screenshot to imgur.com and post link)

Choose HDtune 2.55 free version.
https://www.hdtune.com/download.html

 

[Emily_Vin]

I'm sorry i didn't know this USAFRet i will upload the pictures on IMGUR

First pictures showing the drive when W11 boots

https://imgur.com/iGOazvt

View: https://imgur.com/iGOazvt


second picture showing the partitions (after i probably messed it up)

https://imgur.com/Z8Z7Cax

View: https://imgur.com/Z8Z7Cax



And the HDTune screenshots

https://imgur.com/Q0fIA6F

View: https://imgur.com/Q0fIA6F

(green bar starting to scan again but found nothing)

And the error scan

https://imgur.com/iTkpbqi

View: https://imgur.com/iTkpbqi


I'm guessing bitlocker is the problem here.
Because when i unlock the drive from bitlocker i get an notification that said "encryption in progress" maybe thats what causing all this?
Anyway to uninstall that and stop it from reappearing on my D drive?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Anyway to uninstall that and stop it from reappearing on my D drive?

Go to Control Panel/Bitlocker Drive Encryption
and remove bitlocker from drive D : .

 

[Emily_Vin]

So far as i know i've always had win11 home, so i reinstalled with a clean w11 home edition.
But the Bitlocker Drive Encryption is nowhere to be found in control panel or anywhere else.
I saw that win11 pro had the options but win11 home doesn't seem to have those.

https://imgur.com/f78SdoR

View: https://imgur.com/f78SdoR


Could i delete it in win11 home?

I also pressed the notification when i unlocked the drive and got this.
This is probably why its at 100%? and i probably need to wait till its done i guess?

https://imgur.com/uY19ubo

View: https://imgur.com/uY19ubo


I'll report back when its 100% done to see if the drive calms down after the decryption process.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Bitlocker is windows pro version exclusive feature.

Wait until decryption finishes.

 

[Emily_Vin]

Currently still running and its at 45%
I'm guessing that the drive being HDD instead of SSD and the fact that its an almost full 7tb drive is taking longer than expected.
But i'll leave the pc on to let it do its thing and report back when its done.

 

[Emily_Vin]

Yay

https://imgur.com/a/iEg776z

View: https://imgur.com/a/iEg776z


The bitlocker was the big problem.
So now thats over (almost took 2 days) can i safely turn off my pc for the night?
Or will i have to disable this bitlocker nonsense before i get the same problems next morning?
And will every new account on my pc need to do this?
If so how would i uninstall bitlocker when i can't click on it because i am on W11 home instead of pro?

Thanks in regards everybody

 

[USAFRet]

Bitlocker is windows pro version exclusive feature.

Wait until decryption finishes.

Actually, if the system was Win 11 S originally, then promoted to Win 11 Home, it may well be BL enabled.

S Mode has BitLocker. Once you promote it out of S and to Home, the BitLocker remains.,

My Surface Go is like this.
Win 11 Home, but also BitLocker.

 

[Emily_Vin]

No idea how it happend but its gone
And glad to know its the bitlocker having its way with a big drive rather than my drive is about to end its life.
After all feels kinda silly to make a whole topic on the bitlocker but i had a little panic attack when i saw the constant 100%
But its all gone now thanks again!