Hard drive always busy at 100%?

I just installed a new SSD to my computer (It had already one SSD and one HDD). I also swapped some SATA cables to get better transfer rates on the SSDs (They were on SATA 3Gb/s while I had two 6Gb/s free at another place). I rebooted Windows, everything seemed to work fine.

Since then (It was yesterday), my HDD is very often totally busy (100% in the Task Manager).

Task manager

The thing is... I don't have anything installed on the HDD. All my apps are on the first SSD, and the only thing I put on the second one is BF4 and Origin. I didn't change anything else than what I said. Is there any way to see what's happening here ? Or to see what software is using my HDD ? Because it's really slowing Windows down (I feel like, the Cortana search is often very slow, or unresponsive, and that didn't happen before).

Thomas Kowalski

Posted 2016-06-13T10:15:47.577

Reputation: 121

1Please go to processes of the Taskmanager and sort by disk, see what's happening, or goto monitor resources done on the performance tab – Mahdi Rafatjah – 2016-06-13T10:51:36.707

Without providing the screenshot of the processes in TM we cannot say anything about this. Sometimes we can see that windows it's writing data on to the disk. This may be one of the cause for this. Please share the screenshot. – CodeIt – 2016-06-13T14:44:58.407

1click on resource monitor and look in the disk tab which process causes most activity – magicandre1981 – 2016-06-13T14:46:25.563

I can't right now since it's not 100% anymore. as soon as it'll happen you can be sure I'll post it here :) – Thomas Kowalski – 2016-06-13T16:02:48.033

Answers

100% hard drive busy solved

Win settings

1. Disable help notification solution,go to settings, system, notifications, and turning off "show me tips about Windows".

Right click the start bar -> Click "Properties"
Click "Customize" next to 'Notification Area:'
Slide all bars to "Off" in the 'Notifications' category
Finished!

2. Disable p2p in win update. Go to settings, Windows update, how updates are delivered & disable update / share over the network.

3. Find Superfetch service, right click on it and Disable it

4. Use cc cleaner to correct registry errors.

5. Can also try to disable "superfetch" in win startup process.

After this my 100% disk busy time came down from 18minutes to few minutes after booting up.

Amol

Posted 2016-06-13T10:15:47.577

Reputation: 29

This is not really related to any process. It is a bug in windows that only happens on some systems.

I solved it myself setting the Power Plan in Control Panel to High Performance.

TwirlMandarin

Posted 2016-06-13T10:15:47.577

Reputation: 1 510