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This is a PC that I made for my dad for internet browsing and basic stuff. It ran properly for about a year. It is currently running Windows 10 (Home?), with all updates (Anniversary Pack?) with the following specs:
CPU: Intel Core i5-6500 3.2 GHz
RAM: 4GB
HDD: 1TB SATA III 7200 RPM Toshiba
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 720, 1GB
PSU: 350W
All of a sudden, the PC became extremely slow (The HDD). The HDD is ALMOST constantly at 100%, with 1XMb/s, the HDD task manager will be telling me the HDD is at 100%. Here is what I did:
- Suspected virus; ran antivirus kits.
- manually allocated space for paging file (2X ram)
- stopped services like:
- superfetch
- Windows Search
- Uninstalled Skype
- Uninstalled Chrome
- Put MSISupport in regedit at 0 - 100% disk usage on windows 10
- Might have done more, but I forgot.
- "refreshed" PC and removed everything
- Redid the steps before
- Swap HDD SATA port
At this point, I did not know what to do anymore. So I bought a new HDD (WD Blue) (didn't want to invest in a SSD for my dad, since he just browse the web and stream stuff) Installed the new HDD, formatted it and used userbenchmark to see the perf of everything. the old HDD was 10th percentile, so I was like "maybe I just had a failing HDD!", while my new HDD was doing 90th percentile.
Now I made a cloned Windows from my old HDD to new HDD. And now both HDD is performing like sh*t...
So... is something wrong with Windows 10? But I just refreshed the PC, I don't spend much time at their place, so I don't have much time to investigate. I might bring their PC to my place soon.
Does anyone have an idea what's happening here?
Benner
Posted 2017-08-16T21:41:59.653
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Possible hard disk failure. Check your hard drives for SMART errors How can I read my hard drive's SMART status in Windows 7?, and What is the easiest method of checking SMART status for your hard drive?. Report back with the results.
– DavidPostill – 2017-08-16T21:46:39.090I have a laptop with a 7200 rpm HDD. Same issue, disk often at 100%. Try disabling indexing, but in general, W10 is not for HDDs. – FarO – 2017-08-16T21:57:46.743
If a hard drive is bad then it can make the stuff on it corrupted somewhat and then cloning it just clones the problem. So try installing windows fresh on the new hard drive and see how that is – barlop – 2017-08-16T21:59:20.843
1I don't have an answer for you (@DavidPostill advice is best) but to point out a common misconception, 100% hard drive usage does not necessarily mean something is bad and it does not even mean excessive use, it just means the hard drive is used all the time. You should also check "which programs" are using the hard drive the most and constantly. – Yisroel Tech – 2017-08-17T03:04:14.090
This is common. I suspect your HDD is working as designed. It can only probably access 50-100 locations a second and windows accesses 1,000's of files in possibly many more locations (fragmentation) over a very short period of time. – Damon – 2017-08-17T06:16:45.873
1use a SSD and all issues are gone. this was asked soo many times. – magicandre1981 – 2017-08-17T15:46:11.403