High Disk Usage on SSD for No Reason

[Amurensy]

Yup, it’s there again, and if you are wondering, no, steam is not the cause, since a lot of times I have booted the PC and both Steam and Riot Client didn’t use not even 30% of disk, and if I close it, the disk will just point at another different process using high disk.

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[Bruce]

Have you disconnected D:\ drive?
Did you get the latest BIOS firmware update?
Are all traces of Drive Booster removed?

[Amurensy]

Have you disconnected D:\ drive?
Did you get the latest BIOS firmware update?
Are all traces of Drive Booster removed?

Yes, D:\ drive has been disconnected for months by now, since someone at Microsoft Forum told me that it could be the reason of the performance problem (it wasn’t, so I’ll plug it again later).

Yes I did get the latest BIOS update (the 30’ish).

I’m removing some Driver Booster empty folders right now, but I’ve using it for a while, even when I had a hard drive, it never gave any problem of any kind, I know how to install anything without all that bloatware.

[Amurensy]

Oh btw, if you are talking about the current D:\ drive, is just a second partition of the same SSD

[xrobwx71]

but I’ve using it for a while, even when I had a hard drive, it never gave any problem of any kind,

This is an example of anecdotal evidence which is not really evidence at all. What is evidence that these driver booster programs are bad are the many, many reputable techs and experts across the web who have a lot of experience in troubleshooting and in a lot of cases, backed by education and research. They all agree that the driver booster apps are bad.

[Bruce]

Get ShutUp10 from O&O. It makes turning off a lot of MS stuff much easier.
Resource here; https://pchelpforum.net/r/shutup10.216/
Click the History tab to get the Download link.

Other than that, I’m out of ideas, apart from getting out the big hammer and doing a fresh install of Windows.
Then running the PC with nothing else installed and seeing normal disk usage, then adding one program at a time, and rechecking disk usage each time for a few hours.

Smaller hammers are an in-place repair install of Windows using the Reset My PC process. Or even try creating another user account and log in under that.
Or see if it still occurs when booted into Safe Mode, that determine if it’s hardware or software.

But getting another SSD may be the fastest test.

[Amurensy]

Get ShutUp10 from O&O. It makes turning off a lot of MS stuff much easier.
Resource here; https://pchelpforum.net/r/shutup10.216/
Click the History tab to get the Download link.

Other than that, I’m out of ideas, apart from getting out the big hammer and doing a fresh install of Windows.
Then running the PC with nothing else installed and seeing normal disk usage, then adding one program at a time, and rechecking disk usage each time for a few hours.

Smaller hammers are an in-place repair install of Windows using the Reset My PC process. Or even try creating another user account and log in under that.
Or see if it still occurs when booted into Safe Mode, that determine if it’s hardware or software.

But getting another SSD may be the fastest test.

Yeah, you right, I’ll probably get another SSD later, I’ll be downloading the ShutUp10 just in case

[Bruce]

Keep us posted (y)

[Bruce]

@Amurensy - any news?

[Bruce]

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