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what is actually hammering my drive after windows updates?

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Accepted solution by Nico Olsen — hmmm run a disk check on teh next retsart: chkdsk C: /f, and look for disk errors in Event Viewer under System with source disk or Ntfs.…
  1. Pia Stone
    @pia.stone24

    im literally losing my mind here my laptop takes forever to become usable after Windows updates. Task Manager shows this:

    Disk 0 (C:) Active time 100%

    Disk 0 (C:)   Active time 100%
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    disk at 100%, and teh response time is huge... clicking anything takes ages. after 15 or 20 minutes it calms down... its a few years old with a regular hard drive. is somtehing wrong, or is this just how it is now? :/ im not suree if this is normal for an older laptop or a sign that something is about to fail... upgrading is possible, but Id like to understand teh cause first.

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  2. Wren Quintero
    @wrenq213

    Check teh drives health before anything else. CrystalDiskInfo shows SMART data; look at Reallocated Sectors, Pending Sectors and Uncorrectable counts. Clicking plus slowness is a warning sign.

    thumbsup

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  3. Nico Olsen
    @nico.olsen

    exact same thing happened to my desktop last month... make a backup before u touch the firmware, learned that the hard way

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  4. Felix
    @heap_owl174

    open Resource Monitor (resmon), go to teh Disk tab, and sort by Total (B/sec). It shows exactly which processes and files are being read or written, which is far more usfeul than disabling services blindly.

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  5. Nico Olsen
    @nico.olsen
    Accepted solution

    hmmm run a disk check on teh next retsart: chkdsk C: /f, and look for disk errors in Event Viewer under System with source disk or Ntfs. lmk how it goes

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  7. Selin Jansen
    @selin_copper

    i come back to this thread every week just for teh drama

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  9. Tomas L.
    @mutex_warden
    in reply to @solid_shed750

    i'd disagree with re-enabling everything immediately. On a slow hard drive, scheduling Defender scans for idle times does help day to day. just my 2 cents

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  10. Pia Stone
    @pia.stone24
    in reply to @nico.olsen

    @nico.olsen holy cow swapped the hard drive for an SSD and cloend it. The laptop boots in seconds now and disk usage is barely noticeable.

    party

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