"No Prius Needed" (nopriusneeded)
01/28/2015 at 17:26 • Filed to: None
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"No Prius Needed" (nopriusneeded)
01/28/2015 at 17:26 • Filed to: None | 0
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My PC has been pinned at 100% disk usage lately making it unusable for gaming and simple things like Microsoft word. I have tried all of the things suggested on Toms hardware and so far nothing is working.
I'm wondering if it could be my HHD on its way out since the one I have is apparently a time bomb from all the 1 star newegg reviews. Also I am on windows 8.1 with super fetch, windows search, BITS, and the other programs disabled. Halp
davedave1111
> No Prius Needed
01/28/2015 at 17:33 |
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I assume this is mucht he same on W8.
http://www.7tutorials.com/how-use-resour…
Scroll down to the disk section, then use the info to check what's thrashing the disk.
ly2v8-Brian
> No Prius Needed
01/28/2015 at 17:38 |
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Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen
> No Prius Needed
01/28/2015 at 17:52 |
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The answer is always SSD... or finding out what is wrong
lone_liberal
> No Prius Needed
01/28/2015 at 18:02 |
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Is your disk thrashing because it's writing/reading something or because your memory is used up and it's using the HDD as virtual memory? You might check task manager's performance tab to see if there is available memory and the processes tab to see what's hogging the resources. Also schedule chkdsk to run on your next boot.
wkiernan
> No Prius Needed
01/28/2015 at 18:25 |
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Your hard drive is going bad. Right away, get a second hard drive and some kind of kit to transfer all the data off it (or at least all the important data, such as your collection of photos of Bettie Page).
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> wkiernan
01/28/2015 at 18:30 |
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Shhhhhhh
S2Konstantin
> No Prius Needed
01/28/2015 at 18:34 |
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If its actually at 100%, it won't work well at all like you describe and you need to take some megabytes off of it. If it just thinks its full, then the hard drive is going bad. Either way, I would get another hard drive, install it, install a fresh install of Windows on it, then transfer data from the old one to the new one and delete Windows from the old one. This will either solve the problem or at least save some data.
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> lone_liberal
01/28/2015 at 18:35 |
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There is plenty of memory available so it isn't that. It's usually servicehost that is causing it but I have disabled BITS so it isn't much of a problem anymore. Usually it will just say that the system is causing the 100% usage or whatever program you have open like steam.
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> davedave1111
01/28/2015 at 18:40 |
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I've done that before and it is always system or service host. However, this never happened on my old 1tb hhd so I am thinking it is the hhd.
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> Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen
01/28/2015 at 18:41 |
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I wish...
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davedave1111
> No Prius Needed
01/28/2015 at 19:25 |
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Are you sure there's no malware around?
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Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen
> No Prius Needed
01/28/2015 at 19:28 |
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But it is only $60 bucks for a 120gb...
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> davedave1111
01/28/2015 at 19:44 |
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I did a complete reinstall when I got malware on the 1 TB drive and I scan with superantispyware frequently so I don't think that it could be malware.
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davedave1111
> No Prius Needed
01/28/2015 at 19:49 |
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Give malwarebytes a whirl, too, just to be sure.
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> davedave1111
01/28/2015 at 20:06 |
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Nada. I haven't downloaded anything on this PC besides steam and the nvidia drivers.
Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man
> Sportwägen, Driver Of The Red Sportwagen
01/28/2015 at 20:12 |
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or its only 60 bucks for 8 times that much storage on a HDD.