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hard drive - Windows 8.1 - HDD spinning at 100% even though no read/write


I have an HP Laptop (Core i5, 8GB RAM, 320GB HDD) running Windows 8.1 (x64), that recently got the Sality.AU Virus. The OS had only just been installed, and a friend downloaded the drivers and put them on a USB for me. As it would turn out, the USB had the Sality.AU Virus, and my PC went crazy with Windows Defender warnings as soon as I plugged it in.


After cleaning the virus with Windows Defender, my HDD constantly spins at 100%, even though I have almost no programs (only Torch Browser, Rainmeter and the default OS programs) open.


I have tried the solutions at these two pages on this site



to no avail.


I have also searched the Internet with my problem, and had some pages tell me that my HDD is faulty, some tell me that my Windows is faulty, and others tell me that I installed bad programs, which I can't have, since I have installed all the same programs on my other Toshiba laptop.


My Task Manager gives me the following information:


Task Manager - Performance Task Manager - Processes


and Speccy also says that my HDD is "Good"


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I have no idea what is going on here, as my HDD was fine when I was on my previous (but VERY SLOW due to many installed programs) installation of Windows 8.1 (also x64), and never went over maybe 80% usage when running a copy, and 20% when loading a program or game.


I cannot reinstall the OS, as I do not have the install disks for some of the programs that I use regularly anymore.


Please advise on what to do with my PC. I can only think of one option, which is to buy a new HDD, and ghost the old HDD's partitions onto the new HDD.



Answer



By looking at the trace I can see that you disabled Write Caching for the HDD.


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This slows down the HDD extremely. Go to the device manager and enable Write Caching again:


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This should improve the performance.


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