C Drive usage 100% bottlenecking system

Zorgan · 12 Apr 2014 at 11:05

I have networked (cabled) two systems, one has windows 8 one windows 7

I browse the windows 8 machine on networking, put it the username and password for the windows 8 machine to access the files, last night I was trying to copy over a large file @ 11GB it was taking a very long time, I went to the windows 8 machine but the hard drive usage in the task manager was sitting at 100% and the windows 8 machine rendered extremely slow locking up the system quite a bit, the transfer eventually did take place but took way to long.

any reason why this would happen?

KIA · 12 Apr 2014 at 11:41

Faulty drive?

You can use the free version of HD Tune to analyse drive health. http://www.hdtune.com/

bledd · 12 Apr 2014 at 11:45

Check system tab in event viewer, filter by 'disk'

Try another Sata cable

Zorgan · 12 Apr 2014 at 11:54

SYSTEM seems to be the one using all the disk, I`ll run a test on the drive to be sure about that too. strange when I copy a file over WiFi it actually goes faster, I just copied a 1GB file @ 2.2MB/s (roughly) also did not freeze the main windows 8 machine

bledd · 13 Apr 2014 at 07:13

Try what I said Event Viewer (not task manager)