Disk usage 100% and laptop lagging at times

Hello Guys
This is my second post in the digit forum.
My laptop now is lagging very much sometimes and on booting, it may take a while to load the desktop icons. When I open the task manager and check the disk usage, it might be 80 to 100 percent. At now memory usage is 77 % and disk usage 100 %. I want to record minecraft using the windows game bar, when I start gaming the game lags.

Laptop specifications Acer Aspire 5
-Intel core i5-8250U 1.6 GHz
-Nvidia MX150
-4GB DDR4 RAM @ 2400 MHz
-Western Digital WD10

1. Is it the problem of the lack of RAM as said in my first post ????
2. Is there any way to optimize my laptop ???
3. Is it a problem of any softwares ????
4. Is it the problem of the web browser or using internet ?????

Icosagon said:
Hello Guys
This is my second post in the digit forum.
My laptop now is lagging very much sometimes and on booting, it may take a while to load the desktop icons. When I open the task manager and check the disk usage, it might be 80 to 100 percent. At now memory usage is 77 % and disk usage 100 %. I want to record minecraft using the windows game bar, when I start gaming the game lags.

Laptop specifications Acer Aspire 5
-Intel core i5-8250U 1.6 GHz
-Nvidia MX150
-4GB DDR4 RAM @ 2400 MHz
-Western Digital WD10

1. Is it the problem of the lack of RAM as said in my first post ????
2. Is there any way to optimize my laptop ???
3. Is it a problem of any softwares ????
4. Is it the problem of the web browser or using internet ?????

It's because of the RAM & HDD. Better add another 4GB RAM and add an SSD.

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bssunilreddy said:
It's because of the RAM & HDD. Better add another 4GB RAM and add an SSD.

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Is there any optimizations available ???

Icosagon said:
Is there any optimizations available ???

How to Optimize Your Slow Windows Computer

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bssunilreddy said:
You can only defragment the HDD.
Do some optimisation like reducing the boot time etc.

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Thanks

Icosagon said:
My laptop now is lagging very much sometimes and on booting, it may take a while to load the desktop icons. When I open the task manager and check the disk usage, it might be 80 to 100 percent. At now memory usage is 77 % and disk usage 100 %. I want to record minecraft using the windows game bar, when I start gaming the game lags.

which os do you use? in windows 10 task manager, you can see the process which is taking up the disk. do you use any antivirus? if yes, is windows defender also turned on?

Hey Guys I found the fix in Acer's Community
Disk activity 100% - Aspire 5
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They gave me a link to fix this -
Windows 10 100% disk usage in Task Manager [SOLVED] - Driver Easy
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so which exact fix did solve your issue?
I can see Norton security service, bytefence antimalware service and an avast anti-virus installer running together from the image you posted over there. running more than one antivirus software will cause instability issues. I dont see a reason why you want to run it all! keep only one at a time. If any third party antivirus is installed make sure windows defender is turned off.

rijinpk1 said:
so which exact fix did solve your issue?
I can see Norton security service, bytefence antimalware service and an avast anti-virus installer running together from the image you posted over there. running more than one antivirus software will cause instability issues. I dont see a reason why you want to run it all! keep only one at a time. If any third party antivirus is installed make sure windows defender is turned off.

I disabled super fetch the disk usage is low, but still it's lagging. Now I uninstalled Avast and Bytefence. Then also booting takes so much time

Icosagon said:
I disabled super fetch the disk usage is low, but still it's lagging. Now I uninstalled Avast and Bytefence. Then also booting takes so much time

what is the status of windows defender? is it on? how many items are there on the 'start-up' tab of task manager and which are they?

rijinpk1 said:
what is the status of windows defender? is it on? how many items are there on the 'start-up' tab of task manager and which are they?

Enabled Start-Up items are
-Akamai Net Session client
-2x HD Audio Background Process
-Realtek HD Audio Manager
-Windows Defender notification icon

Windows Defender is on since the Norton antivirus is not subscribed

Now I disabled Windows update and the disk activity was normal
The problem was because of the Windows Update :machinegun2:

Icosagon said:
Windows Defender is on since the Norton antivirus is not subscribed

keep only one at a time. you cannot uninstall windows defender, so either go for norton and disable defender or stay with defender.

Now I disabled Windows update and the disk activity was normal
The problem was because of the Windows Update

windows updates are necessary and will slow down the system while they get installed in the background.

boot time will be slightly higher now as you have disabled superfetch. superfetch service actually helps in reducing the boot time.

Stop indexing service also, it takes a lot of time and 100% disk usage

among other suggestions,
if you are not using RAM hungry applications, you may stop using virtual memory / paging.
if you need virtual memory, when set it to something like 8gb minimum.

that will increase your disk life.

@Op - check your HDD for any sort of bad sector / Other SMART related value using HDTune or Crystal Diskinfo - post the screenshot here.

topgear said:
@Op - check your HDD for any sort of bad sector / Other SMART related value using HDTune or Crystal Diskinfo - post the screenshot here.

Sorry for the late reply

Here is the info from crystal disk

Does this mean the Hard disk is OK ??

probably windows update is hogging up disk i get this few times too restarting solves issue

pkkumarcool said:
probably windows update is hogging up disk i get this few times too restarting solves issue

I tried to disable windows update once and the laptop became stuck. My desktop doesn't have any problems since it has Windows 10 whose support has ended.

Sorry I forgot. There are 9 bad sectors in the hardisk

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Icosagon said:
Sorry I forgot. There are 9 bad sectors in the hardisk

I would suggest you backup your important data just in case.
CrystalDisk also shows Health Status as Caution.

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Icosagon said:
Sorry for the late reply

Here is the info from crystal disk
View attachment 17436
Does this mean the Hard disk is OK ??

No,your hdd is not ok.In crystaldiskinfo--function--advanced feature--raw values--select 10[DEC] to display values in decimal number system(by default all such program show values in hexadecimal number system).Your hdd current pending sector count raw value is A(aka 10 in decimal number system) which is not good & your G sense error rate current & worst value have dropped to 1 indicating your hdd is not securely fixed in enclosure.I wouldn't trust this hdd with any important data.Also just for future reference 100% hdd usage for first 4-5 minutes of booting win 8.1/10 is normal for a laptop hdd.That is why ssd are so much better as system drive.

whitestar_999 said:
No,your hdd is not ok.In crystaldiskinfo--function--advanced feature--raw values--select 10[DEC] to display values in decimal number system(by default all such program show values in hexadecimal number system).Your hdd current pending sector count raw value is A(aka 10 in decimal number system) which is not good & your G sense error rate current & worst value have dropped to 1 indicating your hdd is not securely fixed in enclosure.I wouldn't trust this hdd with any important data.Also just for future reference 100% hdd usage for first 4-5 minutes of booting win 8.1/10 is normal for a laptop hdd.That is why ssd are so much better as system drive.

So should I replace the HDD ??

A

Do a soft reset

Arushi Bansal said:
Do a soft reset

How would that fix bad sectors? :facepalm:

B

Arushi Bansal said:
Do a soft reset

What exactly does that mean?

W

Probably a full format or running chkdsk /f command.

W

Icosagon said:
So should I replace the HDD ??

If you have the budget you should(a new 1TB WD Blue laptop hdd costs ~3.5k).I would also suggest getting the hdd from local mkt instead of online(internal hdd are very delicate & courier handling is not good most of the time for such delicate items) & make sure to get it installed in laptop securely(tell shopkeeper that software reporting movement shock to hdd indicating hdd is not properly installed within laptop).

If you don't need that much space I suggest buying samsung 860Evo 250gb ssd from onlyssd.com for ~5.7k.The difference in system performance will be like night & day.

Still have the problems when windows automatically downloads updates and I have no way but to install the when shutting down. Next time I start it will take a while to start. Windows takes a while to boot so i am using linux. By the way do you guys have any problems like this ??

Now here are the results from linux. Now there are 10 bad sectors !!

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^^from my previous post:

Your hdd current pending sector count raw value is A(aka 10 in decimal number system) which is not good & your G sense error rate current & worst value have dropped to 1 indicating your hdd is not securely fixed in enclosure.

Your HDD is failing.
Do a backup of important data.

Zangetsu said:
Your HDD is failing.
Do a backup of important data.

So can I repair the HDD ?

Icosagon said:
So can I repair the HDD ?

Perhaps...
complete format the HDD and check if it helps reduce/remove the errors.
but still don't rely on it completely.

You can repair it from the HDD technicians but the repair cost will be higher than the price of the new HDD. and that too after repair no guarantee it will survive for long or not

Icosagon said:
So can I repair the HDD ?

Don't think so.