Windows 10 Hard Drive Utilisation

jake000

jake000

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Hello all :)

I bought a laptop last week for my wife and the hard drive utilisation keeps going to 100%. I have very limited use with windows 10 (can't stand it, avoid at all costs lol), so not sure how to fix this or if the hard drive itself is faulty.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you :)
 
It seems to be a common problem with no real/easy fix with Windows 10 - it might simply be preparing for the next update and will go away after a few hours when it is done or you might have ongoing high disk utilisation - lots of complaints about it on the Windows 10 forums, etc. but MS don't seem to care.

For instance:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...friendly/930e64ba-9050-4e70-9035-7efc7b8908ba

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...ndows-10/426142e0-30e7-41a7-9150-61ac4514eb7e

and loads more of the same.
 
Thank you for the fast reply. That's really bad. How do people use windows 10 with a common problem like that? I feel like returning the laptop now because it's unusable as it is.
 
If you go to task manager and open resource monitor there is a Disk tab that might narrow down what is causing the high drive utilisation i.e. could be anti-virus on a new system - but its a fairly common problem on 10 so I suspect it won't be easy to fix.

(I think its on the performance tab in Windows 10 but I don't have a Windows 10 device to hand right now to check).

hornetstinger said:
Windows 7 had this a while ago too. Try leaving it overnight if it sorts itself. Unless it's a sad then I'd be concerned if it's constantly writing.
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Mostly sorted after Vista - there are 1-2 services like disk indexing that can sometimes be to blame but its relatively easy to find the cause and stop it in 7 unlike 10 - couple of threads here recently where people have gone to great lengths to try and stop Windows 10 waking up HDDs.
 
If you look in the processes list is there one that is constantly busy - can't remember the name off the top of my head but you can expand it and it usually lists things like Windows update and installer modules, etc. if so Windows update is probably doing its thing in the background.

EDIT: Check pagefile settings as well - Windows 10 might be setting it to a huge size which often means the HDD will crunch a way for minutes at a time after booting and sometimes messing about with the hibernation settings or disabling it entirely can help.
 
Current hard drive activity is at 1MB/s but still at 91% utilisation. When expanding it, it says windows update. With such a low activity, why is using so much utilisation? Just a common fault with Windows 10 as mentioned?
 
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