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

andshrew · 15 Jan 2014 at 23:03

Did you look in the Task Manager to see what processes were using the hard drive?

Some screenshots from the Processes and Performance (both memory and disk) tabs when the problem was occurring would have been useful.

panyan · 15 Jan 2014 at 23:19

never heard of this

perhaps a virus scan was running? that would use the c drive at 100% wouldnt it?

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

andshrew · 16 Jan 2014 at 18:12

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

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

andshrew · 16 Jan 2014 at 19:02

No it isn't the arrow indicating which is sorted is over the Name column.... and everything is in alphabetical order

smogsy · 17 Jan 2014 at 22:19

had this 3 times,

on win 8.1 it normally search indexer running but not showing in task manager

open task manager go to performance monitor you'll see the process running

reboot fixes it. its quite rare but has happened since vista.

but on vista it used to use 99% of ram too

tsinc80697 · 26 Jan 2014 at 23:21

I've got this at the minute, even a reboot doesn't solve it. Really annoying!

bledd · 27 Jan 2014 at 00:46

Get process explorer, this is a fuller version of task manager

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!

marc2003 · 27 Jan 2014 at 10:57

i ran the trial version of 8.1 for about a month before i ditched it. it was the search indexer kicking in while gaming that did it for me. i could alt tab out, go into services and stop it but that's not the point. i didn't want to disable the service either because i like having my files indexed but it should only do it when the pc is idle. :mad: