100% disk usage, computer almost un-usable

[deathmore]

Upgraded my cpu 1 week ago and two days latter my c disk is constantly at 100% disk usage. computer is so slow its unbearable. Response time on drive fluctuates from 1000ms to 10000ms but it shows activity transfer/writes etc less then 1mb/s

HDD: WD Black 1TB 64mb cache 7200rpm

Things i've tried:
Disabled superfetch and windows search.
chkdisk found nothing
hd-tune found 1.5% block errors.
tried moving it from one hot swap bay to another.
2 other drives are normal.
blue screened this morning trying to get into event viewer.
reset OC's to normal
Did virus scan nothing. (only have windows defender)
disabled windows notifications and removed some programs from boot.
adjusted page file to be min size of installed ram and max for 2x ram size.
drive was not fragmented.
installed lastest chipset driver.
Tried changing sata controler in bios from IDE to AHCI and windows would not boot properly/would not detect boot drive properly, had to revert.

Nothing listed worked. If anyone has ideas let me know.

edit: added event log in .txt format. couldent post it in its event log file type.

 

[Sasqui]

Wow, that's a head scratcher. It ONLY happens with that drive? Where is the OS installed?

 

[deathmore]

Wow, that's a head scratcher. It ONLY happens with that drive? Where is the OS installed?

Its my OS C drive that its happening to. the other two drives read around 0-2%. But my WD black (my OS drive) is so slow from the 100% usage.

 

[Sasqui]

It all points to the drive, but then again it could be software related.

I'd try this first and go from there: https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=3

 

[deathmore]

It all points to the drive, but then again it could be software related.

I'd try this first and go from there: https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?p=3

When i ran datalifeguard it said there was some errors. it didnt say how many and that id lose data trying to fix it. I tried to do a backup and that failed. I browsed through the event log and i've had 700 disk error events since the 6th which is around the time i put the new cpu in.

 

[Sasqui]

When i ran datalifeguard it said there was some errors. it didnt say how many and that id lose data trying to fix it. I tried to do a backup and that failed. I browsed through the event log and i've had 700 disk error events since the 6th which is around the time i put the new cpu in.

That's a tell right there. Your drive is trying to fix itself, it sounds like. Sometimes things seem a little too coincidental, when they are just that... coincidental. If you have any spare drives kicking around to transfer the OS over to it and see if the problem goes away. My bet is the drive.

 

[deathmore]

That's a tell right there. Your drive is trying to fix itself, it sounds like. Sometimes things seem a little too coincidental, when they are just that... coincidental. If you have any spare drives kicking around to transfer the OS over to it and see if the problem goes away. My bet is the drive.

Only got some WD green 5400 rpm drives. I guess i could try that tonight.

 

[Vya Domus]

Windows defender doing it's thing probably. It's atrociously bad , I for one can't use a computer with an HDD while windows defender is enabled.

 

[jagjitnatt]

Disable system restore.

Also open resource monitor, on the Disk tab, sort by Total (B/sec) descending and post a screen shot.

 

[deathmore]

Windows defender doing it's thing probably. It's atrociously bad , I for one can't use a computer with an HDD while windows defender is enabled.

Disable system restore.

Also open resource monitor, on the Disk tab, sort by Total (B/sec) descending and post a screen shot.

Its always and only had windows defender running for years. And its had no processes showing it taking up a chunk of the 100%. I'll have to post the screen from home tonight as im at work. Like i said before the total B/sec was low but the MS reponse time was 1000 to 10000. It seems like its struggling to maybe get the data to and from the drive in a timely manner?

 

[jboydgolfer]

you don't happen to have malware bites installed by any chance do you? There was an issue with it eating ram and cpu until systems became unusable. The problem was patched, but if by chance you havent updated ,you could potentially be experiencing that, I figured it was worth a shot

 

[deathmore]

you don't happen to have malware bites installed by any chance do you? There was an issue with it eating ram and cpu until systems became unusable. The problem was patched, but if by chance you havent updated ,you could potentially be experiencing that, I figured it was worth a shot

I dont think so. Generally i only use it if i suspect something. Otherwise i only use windows defender. CPU and ram are both low. 2gb of 12gb used on average and cpu 5% or lower.

 

[newtekie1]

hd-tune found 1.5% block errors.

The drive is on its way out. Replace it, I bet that is why it is slow.

 

[deathmore]

The drive is on its way out. Replace it, I bet that is why it is slow.

Is 1.5% alot for a 1tb hard drive like it seems a small amount. But i guess i'll try swapping tonight. Wife is going to be pissed when i tell her i need to spend more money.

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

I agree with @newtekie1. The drive is on it's way out. If a drive ever starts getting any kind of errors, replace it. Youre better off.

Post a screenshot of crystaldiskinfo.

 

[newtekie1]

Is 1.5% alot for a 1tb hard drive like it seems a small amount. But i guess i'll try swapping tonight. Wife is going to be pissed when i tell her i need to spend more money.

That test should return 0%. Anything higher than that means HDTune could not read part of the drive, and the drive is failing.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Sounds like a good time to upgrade to a SSD drive.

 

[deathmore]

05 = relocated sectors count: 211
C5 = current pending sector count: 264
C6 = Un-correctable sector count: 77

Wife is bringing me a new WD black 1tb from bestbuy in an hour. now i need to figure out to move everything over.

 

[NdMk2o1o]

Yup definitely the drive is on it's way out and you should refrain from using it, try and copy all of your important data over to the new drive your wife is bringing you, you could try and clone the drive so you don't have to do a fresh Windows install and reinstall all your programs etc but it may well not work if the drive is already throwing out errors and misbehaving but worth a shot.

 

[deathmore]

yah, going to try this acronis true image program and see if i can copy it over once i get the new drive. I don't feel so bad now that ive seen i got 2400 days out of it.

 

[jboydgolfer]

Discwizard from seagate is pretty easy for cloning fwiw. Its based on acronis, but ime is easier to use.

 

[Aquinus]

C6 = Un-correctable sector count: 77

This is the value that should scare you. Back that sucker up sooner rather than later.

Yup definitely the drive is on it's way out and you should refrain from using it, try and copy all of your important data over to the new drive your wife is bringing you, you could try and clone the drive so you don't have to do a fresh Windows install and reinstall all your programs etc but it may well not work if the drive is already throwing out errors and misbehaving but worth a shot.

That runs on the assumption that no data has been corrupted while the drive has been failing. It might be worth doing a clean install.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I'd try a different cable if you haven't already. If that doesn't immediately fix it, then yeah, that drive is a liability. The fact it happened when you changed CPUs is weird though.

That runs on the assumption that no data has been corrupted while the drive has been failing. It might be worth doing a clean install.

I second this. Clean installs always have fewer issues down the road.

 

[deathmore]

I'd try a different cable if you haven't already. If that doesn't immediately fix it, then yeah, that drive is a liability. The fact it happened when you changed CPUs is weird though.


I second this. Clean installs always have fewer issues down the road.

I moved around in my hot swap bay on my corsair 800D and no change was still 100%

making installation usb now. I will dump old files on one of my green drives and do new on the new black drive

 

[AsRock]

Had some thing like this last week, to the point any thing would take frigging ages to load and Firefox well that took at least 20 minutes to load. I got to be able look though the resource monitor and looked like some part of a windows update was going on but to actually be like this for over 24 hours ( thats how long it took my daughter to tell me she figgured it be alright the next day ), i actually killed the windows update, stopped the service and stopped any thing that was hogging and the laptops been fine since.

But yes 100% HDD usage just continuslly was seen until solved.