Recently I did a complete fresh windows install on the laptop due to a corrupted os, one of the issues I was having before it became corrupted was that "disk" was always at 100%. Probably some software was the issue back then.
I have recently had problems with my laptop where the hard drive was frequently running at 100% read write capacity (storage capacity was only about 50% full), Basically the hard drive was working very hard and everything I tried to do was freezing. Reinstalling Windows didn't help, chucking out unwanted files and clearing browser cache etc didn't help. Eventually the hard drive failed. Thankfully I managed to back up my data shortly before that happened.
If your hard drive isn't completely full, but is running at 100% capacity as seen in Task Manager it could be in the process of failing. '100% capacity' in Task Manager means it's trying to find the data constantly but cannot find it, possibly due to multiple disk errors and bad blocks, so it keeps on searching for ever.
Make a fresh copy of all your data immediately if you haven't already done so, including your email client default profile. I don't use Backup software as I have found in the past that most of my folders were empty when I came to reinstall them (aaaargh!) so this time I dragged all my files and the default email client profile to an external drive. Took me a while to copy 1TB!
Within days the SSHD (SATA hybrid) hard drive started to crash. Eventually got a blue screen. Unable to repair - it wasn't the Windows OS. Windows internal disk check couldn't find any disk errors (???), but another( external) disk check program found the disk was packed with errors and bad blocks.
I am now waiting for a new NVMe SSD to arrive. Thankfully I have an old laptop to use in the meantime (am writing this post on it now). Just wanted to pass this info to you in case something similar is happening to your hard drive. Fingers crossed it isn't, but I just wanted to give you the benefit of my lesson!!
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram