Question Windows 10 freezing randomly 100% disk usage

[juisjuis]

Well i've just build a completely new pc and installed Win 10. And every few minutes or secs everything freezes, i usually can move mouse but cant send any input or do anything during the freeze, although voice call on discord keep working. I've looked what happens during this freezes and it seems like some win 10 processes randomly gets 100% disk usage. Any solution to this?

 

[onespeedbiker]

Advise PC specs, motherboard, hdd, GPU, PSU, RAM and CPU. Often 100 disk usage can mean your system drive has reached the limits of it's ability to move data. Do you have a hdd or sdd system drive. Since it'd a new build, go back into the case and recheck all the connections, including removing and reinstalling your memory sticks.

 

[juisjuis]

CPU AMD ryzen 5 2600
GPU Radeon RX 580
Motherboard asus 320M-K
RAM 1x Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4 3200 MHZ 8GB CL18
SSD Kingston 480GB 500MB/S R 480MB/S W

as far as i've looked up, its something related to win10 services bug taking immense amount of disk usage and is not related to specs, just cant fix it

 

[elmersattic]

I had the same problem and spent many hours trying loads of different recommended fixes but nothing worked. Then I found at manufacture my 1tb hdd had been partitioned to create a C drive for the OS and a D drive for storage, in other words a virtual second drive with only one physical HDD. 165gb used on C and nothing on the D drive. Windows 7 had the free upgrade to windows 10. The fix that worked immediately was to go to disk management from start menu, delete D drive and expand C drive to max. Then open command prompt as administrator and typed in chkdsk /r /f and hit enter. Then restarted pc and let it do the rest. Did it for me after 3 days of trying fixes. I now have one 1tb C drive. no more 100% disk usage, no more freezing or unresponsive windows 10, chrome or edge. Boot up fine now and working best it has ever done. This will not work on a machine with 2 physical drives.

 

[juisjuis]

I had the same problem and spent many hours trying loads of different recommended fixes but nothing worked. Then I found at manufacture my 1tb hdd had been partitioned to create a C drive for the OS and a D drive for storage, in other words a virtual second drive with only one physical HDD. 165gb used on C and nothing on the D drive. Windows 7 had the free upgrade to windows 10. The fix that worked immediately was to go to disk management from start menu, delete D drive and expand C drive to max. Then open command prompt as administrator and typed in chkdsk /r /f and hit enter. Then restarted pc and let it do the rest. Did it for me after 3 days of trying fixes. I now have one 1tb C drive. no more 100% disk usage, no more freezing or unresponsive windows 10, chrome or edge. Boot up fine now and working best it has ever done. This will not work on a machine with 2 physical drives.

I have 3 partitions in my main disk, OEM partition 499MB, system EFI partition 99 MB and boot, pagination, main partition 446.53 GB as shown in the image , not sure if this is what you meant.

 

[elmersattic]

I have 3 partitions in my main disk, OEM partition 499MB, system EFI partition 99 MB and boot, pagination, main partition 446.53 GB as shown in the image , not sure if this is what you meant.

Yes, just the 446.53 GB image, leave the system one alone.