Will factory reset stop my 100% disk usage problem

[PCRookie123]

Well im thinking if factory reset will help with my 100% hard disk problem, disabled prefetch superfetch and others. It was ok until i launch an application or restart my laptop. it spikes up to 100% getting freezes almost all the time. Having a 5400RPM hdd.

 

[Colif]

Maybe... it depends on if the 100% activity is software or hardware

Try doing a clean boot and see if you still get same thing - if you don't it might be a start up program causing it or a driver.

Which version of windows is it?

 

[PCRookie123]

Maybe... it depends on if the 100% activity is software or hardware

Try doing a clean boot and see if you still get same thing - if you don't it might be a start up program causing it or a driver.

Which version of windows is it?

It does make a slight difference in booting up bit it still spikes up to 100 whenever i launch an app. Im using windows 10. anyways thanks for the suggestion.

 

[Colif]

Can you open task manager/performance tab and click Open Resource Monitor

Over view shows activity of all parts of PC, if you look at the Disk window you can sort it by reads or writes, expand the file path out to see what is chewing hdd

 

[DylanL31]

ive been having the exact same problem. I did factory reset my computer and it still happened a few times. I was downloading a game and for some reason that spiked it to a constant 80%, there was also an instance where I was just looking on the internet, but for some reason its working pretty perfect now, so I'm skeptical

 

[Colif]

Al;ways helps to run free version of hdtune on drive and make sure its okay before looking for software reasons

 

[PCRookie123]

Can you open task manager/performance tab and click Open Resource Monitor

Over view shows activity of all parts of PC, if you look at the Disk window you can sort it by reads or writes, expand the file path out to see what is chewing hdd

System took around 3M-4M Bytes while launching application. When its idle, everything only takes around 500K bytes

 

[Colif]

can you show some screen shots of the resource monitor windows

 

[PCRookie123]

can you show some screen shots of the resource monitor windows

http://imgur.com/gallery/qfSOf
This is when its at around 100%

http://imgur.com/gallery/j6RK0
when its idle

There you go.

Tried Delaying MsMpEng didnt work but not sure if my process is correct. I went to Regedit and disabled it.
svchost is another thing that is making this happen. Every restart i made this is the one using up my harddisk.

 

[Colif]

only way to really stop defender is to use another firewall/antivirus as windows won't let you stop it otherwise
top 2 system services in the 100% time are actually Steam so if that is at startup, just stop steam loading with PC by going to startup tab of task manager and disabling it

 

[PCRookie123]

only way to really stop defender is to use another firewall/antivirus as windows won't let you stop it otherwise
top 2 system services in the 100% time are actually Steam so if that is at startup, just stop steam loading with PC by going to startup tab of task manager and disabling it

I noticed that everytime I launched CSGO, it takes around 30 sec before the Valve thingy comes out, it usually takes 4-5M bytes causing it to have slow launching time, loading maps takes really long as well, almost 3 mins for csgo

 

[Colif]

did you run hdtune on the drive?

have you looked on your motherboard web site to see if any new sata or chipset drivers for PC? It might be old drivers slowing you down.

 

[PCRookie123]

did you run hdtune on the drive?

have you looked on your motherboard web site to see if any new sata or chipset drivers for PC? It might be old drivers slowing you down.

ran HDTUNE, no problem with it.
But i seem to have some problem updating the drivers. I went Dell Drivers List and updated the BIOS, after finish installing and restarted my pc. Went back to the page and saw the same version of BIOS in the download list again. What am i doing wrong here?

 

[Colif]

i would just ignore the bios in listing if you already have it, i would look at the other drivers and get what you haven't got yet.