Windows 8.1 100% disk usage?

satanicguardian · 15 Jan 2014 at 22:38

Guys, has anyone else experienced Windows 8.1 bricking their systems? I just purchased a new Asus laptop for work and occasional gaming on the go, very nice system, wanted 8.1 cause I'd heard good things, installed just fine.. but then I noticed my hdd usage was at a constant 100%, I did some googling and spent a few hours trying to troubleshoot it but it kept returning, and 100% usage really does affect system response, not fun!

Is anyone able to assist? I'm doing a reinstall thing from the windows 8 setting menu atm, idk if it will restore it to just windows 8 or if I'm going to have to crack out windows 7, advice would be appreciated

***sorry if this topic already exists, posting from a phone and is a pain to search

satanicguardian · 16 Jan 2014 at 09:56

I just ran a reinstall, this is the typical thing I'm seeing, sometimes it drops but it randomly raises to max for no reason

satanicguardian · 16 Jan 2014 at 09:58

I realise there that disk cleanup is running, but even when not I get similar errors, 100% disk usage but not showing where it's from :C

satanicguardian · 16 Jan 2014 at 18:58

andshrew said:
You need to click the Disk column so that it sorts it by usage.

That is sorted by usage

that's the weird thing

satanicguardian · 27 Jan 2014 at 10:48

I rolled back to windows 8.0 - I'm tempted to go to windows 7 again to be honest, but certain features of 8 are useful, I like snapping metro apps to the sides, means I can watch youtube at work!