Question HP Elitebook 840 G2 keeps running Seagate 1TB HDD at 100% disc usage

[Detective_Khalifah_dtcfscd]

https://www.cleverfiles.com/howto/100-disk-usage-windows-10.htmlHello, good day!

RAM: 16 GB DDR3L
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-5200U CPU @ 2.20GHz 2.20 GHz
OS: Windows 10 Pro 22H2
System type: 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

I realised my PC was running slower than usual after a restart this week (I'm a mobile developer).
I used the Windows 10 Installation Media to upgrade my installation, and slow was it! Took almost a day. After the upgrade, there wasn't improvement, and on opening Task Manager, I saw a 100% disc usage; RAM was around 50%, and CPU was definitely less.
I googled 100% disc usage and found out it's a common issue; I opened a few websites, followed the instructions, and I did the following:

1. Disabled Telemetry on Group Policy Editor.
2. Disabled Superfetch.
3. Reset Virtual Memory (to No paging file).
4. Ran Full Scan on Kaspersky.
5. Enabled High Performance power plan.
6. Currently rebuilding search index.
7. Ran chkdsk (to check only), which reported no problems on either of 2 partitions.
8. Deleted temporary files.
9. Changed File Explorer options, unticking "Always search file names and contents (this might take several minutes)".
10. Disabled CompatTelRunner on Task Scheduler.

I did not fix StorAHCI.sys driver, as my PC uses iaStorA.sys;

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One more thing: Hard Disk Sentinel kept showing that the hard disc health degraded when I ran it while I was running a full scan on Kaspersky, but CHKDSK hasn't detected any issues.

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Ref.:

• https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...storasys/89a3532a-456d-4396-8d94-67a37805b7ce
• https://www.avg.com/en/signal/fix-1...If you're at 100,the result of several issues.
• https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmagic/100-disk-usage-windows-10.html
• https://www.cleverfiles.com/howto/100-disk-usage-windows-10.html

 

[rgd1101]

replace the hdd with a ssd

 

[Detective_Khalifah_dtcfscd]

replace the hdd with a ssd

I cannot do that at the moment. Is there another option I could opt before I'm able to acquire one?

 

[Detective_Khalifah_dtcfscd]

Health went down from 100% to 88% -> 45% -> 25% -> 17% while HDSentinel was open. Pretty much stopped degrading when I closed HDSentinel.

 

[rgd1101]

sound like the more you use it the faster it will failed