My eternal love forever and ever to anyone that can help me resolve this issue that I've had with my computer ever since I got it.
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This has been an issue for some time and it drives me absolutely
insane. It locks up my computer until it stops being retarded.
It's not only the SSD that does it, but my spinner (HDD) does it too (Drive S: as per above). 100% active time, yet the speeds are all 0. I've tried to find resolutions using Google to no avail.
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http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-tips-fix-100-disk-usage-improve-windows-performance/
Some process is using it so I'd disable that one. Could be anti-virus too
I've disabled Superfetch and Windows Search and the problem is still there. There isn't any obvious process at all that is using the disk. Nothing is reading or writing, and i've used the Resource Monitor to see if I can get more information. But it just shows the active time ramping up to 100% and the disk usage information doesn't change. During one such bout of it, the two highest disk-using processes were MsMpEng and System. The usage of which both pale in comparison to any video game, so they're not the culprits from the look of it.
Hadn't tried disabling Flash in Chrome. I doubt it'll resolve it, but have disabled it now and will see if I get hit with more lock-ups. These have been happening very regularly lately.
I've also read to make sure you don't have defrag on sdd's for reasons
SSD dying doesn't sound right as both drives do this and it's been happening since I got the PC about 2 years ago or so. As far as I'm aware, SSD's also tend to die instantly and not over time, due to how they work.
As for virus, I've run countless scans over the past two years or so and nothing detected yet.
I might throw my specs up when I get home from work.
Thanks for all the suggestions so far! Hopefully at some point this can be resolved. Appreciate the assistance.
I'll run Process Explorer again though!
If the issue continues in Safe mode, you know you have a HW issue. If it doesn't, you know it is SW. If SW, try uninstalling anything that you installed right before the issue started. May be worth a recovery if you did not change any sw settings.
If it is HW, then that is going to take a bit more investigation. Would definitely make sure everything his hooked up correctly, at that point. I would pull out one drive and only keep in the Windows drive to ensure it isn't something to do with the way the master/slave is interacting. If issue continues with one drive, only, try different cable connections to the board to rule out the cables. If it isn't cables and the issue is happening on both drives in the same way, then you know it is motherboard related.
Best of luck!
Edit: Re-read and saw you say it has happened since you got the machine. Safemode and chkdsk are worth it. Ensures there are no corrupted files that are causing the issue.
Edit2: Okay, you say the HDD is 100% but 0 speed, can you hear the HDD spinning? If not, the 100% up may be an access error. Really, that is speculative but safe mode will be your first step in diagnostics.
I went through my BIOS and the two drives were not set to AHCI, so I set them to AHCI. So far so good.