Windows 10 '100% disk error'

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Anyone know how to fix it?

Basically my Acer laptop running the latest release of W10 (21H2, 10.0.19044.1645) is running really slow and has become pretty most of the time. There is something software related that is causing the HDD to run at 100% capacity for extended periods of time which means simple things like opening a browser, email or other document takes ages, and things like Photoshop and Lightroom (photo editors) are pretty much unusable.

I've tried all the known fixes, and nothing seems to work.

 

[TCIB]

Open cmd prompt as admin and run these commands...

SFC /scannow
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

Reboot and then run msconfig, uncheck all apps on startup that are not needed. Then check taskmgr to see what, if it persists, is using the disk.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Open cmd prompt as admin and run these commands...

SFC /scannow
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

Reboot and then run msconfig, uncheck all apps on startup that are not needed. Then check taskmgr to see what, if it persists, is using the disk.

I'll give that a whirl.

I'm guessing those are going to take some time to complete given the maxed out HDD?

 

[TCIB]

If it is slow af try running it in safe mode.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

If it is slow af try running it in safe mode.

I'll try it, but I'm not expecting it to make much of a difference. I guess I'll just have to suck it up and let it run its course.