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Problem description: My laptop keeps grinding to a halt, with programs going all "not responding" or just going super slowly. After a couple minutes, it goes back to normal. If I manage to open Task Manager during this, it says my Disk usage is at 100% percent. But all the programs listed are at 0 MB/s. It started doing this maybe a week ago, at first just every now and then, but more and more frequently for longer and longer times. It's been doing it for half an hour right now. edit:I have more information! My hard drive is partitioned, and it only does the 100% usage thing when I'm trying to look at or access files stored on the drive labeled D, which is where I store files, my C drive having all my installed programs and such Attempted fixes: I googled and found suggestions to turn off notifications and turn off something called Super Fetch, and turn off something Called Background Intelligent Transfer Sevice. Which I did. It did not work Recent changes: none -- Operating system: Windows 8.1 Enterprise 64-bit System specs: It's a Acer laptop. Processor is a Intel(R) Core (TM) i7-3537U CPU @ 2.00GHz 2.30 GHz Location: USA I have Googled and read the FAQ: As I said, I have googled. But I didn't see a thread with FAQ in the title or a link to a FAQ in either of the stickied threads, so I haven't done that edit: added the part about turning off Background Intelligent Transfer Service boom boom boom fucked around with this message at 23:24 on May 21, 2016 |
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May 21, 2016 04:47
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Run the portable (ZIP) version of Crystal Disk Info and post a screenshot of the results page.
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May 21, 2016 22:48
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I have more information! My hard drive is partitioned, and it only does the 100% usage thing when I'm trying to look at or access files stored on the drive labeled D, which is where I store files, my C drive having all my installed programs and suchCaptainSarcastic posted:Run the portable (ZIP) version of Crystal Disk Info and post a screenshot of the results page. 
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May 21, 2016 23:24
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It looks like your hard drive is failing, and the problem parts of the drive are probably on the area used by that partition. You should look at replacing that drive before it completely stops working.
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May 21, 2016 23:30
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Thanks for your help! well, poo poo.
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May 21, 2016 23:32
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It's worth replacing it with a solid state drive. There's a whole thread talking about them
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May 21, 2016 23:35
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Fruit Smoothies posted:It's worth replacing it with a solid state drive. There's a whole thread talking about them Don't those last even less time?
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May 21, 2016 23:50
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boom boom boom posted:Don't those last even less time? Especially in a laptop I'd actually expect an SSD to last longer, and they also have the benefits of being more energy efficient and producing less heat as well as being lighter and faster than a mechanical HDD.
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May 22, 2016 00:02
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boom boom boom posted:Don't those last even less time? If you buy a cheap junky one with terrible reviews, yes. If you buy a nice quality SSD it's likely to fail less frequently as there aren't moving parts to degrade over time.
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May 23, 2016 00:10
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boom boom boom posted:Don't those last even less time? Actually no, unless you put the cheapest possible consumer drive in a datacenter that rewrites all data on it every two hours. Even heavier realistic consumer use cases will take decades to wear out SSDs.
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May 23, 2016 11:00
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!