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Lately my Windows disk usage has been "sky-rocketing" to 100% and then everything freezes up, nothing is responding. I can’t even open the menu from sliding my mouse to the top right corner and I can’t grab the top of my screen with the mouse. Kind of just seems like I'm looking at a picture.
I've already looked in Task Manager to see what’s causing it and I can't find anything. Everything seems calm but at the top it displays Disk: 100%.
It will stop after about 15 minutes and everything will be fine and back to normal, then when I get on the laptop later and boot it up again the problem persists.
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Your picture would be (a lot) more useful if you sorted by Disk usage instead of by name, so that we could actually see things using the disk in the screen shot. :) Have you tried in Safe Mode? Have you done Disk Checks? Have you tried disabling start up programs?
– Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2013-09-25T15:06:39.457The most common reason for a disk to be busy but not transferring data is read errors. That should show up on the S.M.A.R.T. values under reallocated or pending. Can you add those values to the post? (If you need help figuring out how to do that, look at these posts tagged smart here on [SU].
– Hennes – 2013-09-25T15:12:19.8201
Seems to be an epidemic with Windows 8. See here and here for possible duplicates (and solutions).
– Rik – 2013-09-25T15:12:35.960possible duplicate of Extremely high disk activity without any real usage, Windows 8 hard disk usage 100%
– Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2013-09-25T15:16:32.367@Rik - In both of those examples it appears like a hardware not software problem. – Ramhound – 2013-09-25T15:54:09.077
@Ramhound Nope, in the second post i mentioned there was a problem with Windows 8 (re-)generating 4x 2Gb icon-files on startup which would take some time. So the OP could check if he also has these massive files.
– Rik – 2013-09-25T16:15:19.197@Rik - I have been using Windows 8.1 since it was released to MSDN users and I have not had a problem. Its not clear from that post what is generating those icons. I wouldn't say its an "epidemic" at this point. – Ramhound – 2013-09-25T16:23:51.083