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Disk 3 (E:) at constant 100% activity

Recently I started to notice that my PC was a lot slower and when I look at task manager I find that my (E:) Drive has been running at 100% active time. I tried some of the fixes I found online but they didn't work. I found a temporary fix by moving a couple applications over to my other drive, however after a while it would start acting up again. The Active Time seems to go up to 100% whenever I open an application that is being stored in my (E:) Drive. This problem started happening after I had a new CPU cooler put in but I can't see how it would affect my drive. Sorry if this was a bit long, this is my first time asking a question and I wasn't sure what to write.

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There could be some 3rd party software that is causing the slow performance of your PC. To properly isolate the issue, we suggest performing a clean boot to eliminate possible software conflicts. Please check out this article for reference.
How to perform a clean boot in Windows
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows-da2f9573-6eec-00ad-2f8a-a97a1807f3dd
If it doesn't help, please get back to us with a screenshot of your PC's Task Manager so we can check on it.

Hope above information can help you.

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Sorry for taking so long to reply, I actually forgot that I had asked this question oops. I did the clean boot as mentioned in the article and then tried to uninstall one of the applications that had been causing me problems. After about 5 hours It told me that some of the files in the folder were corrupt and couldn't be deleted. After googling it I found a YouTube video that told me to run an error checking scan on the drive. I started the scan and then left my PC alone for an hour or 2, when I came back it was only a quarter finished and had an ETA of 3 hours so I cancelled it and tried to find something else. Then I found an article that told me to boot in safe mode and try uninstalling the corrupted files. After restarting my PC to boot it into safe mode it instead started some disk fix or something I'm not entirely sure. After another hour it was finished and when my PC loaded up I tried to delete the corrupted files and it worked and now the problem is solved.

I have no clue what I did or why it fixed the problem but I am happy that it worked lol. Hopefully the problem doesn't come back :)

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AndreasBaumgarten answered Ryan-8552 commented

Hi @Ryan-8552 ,

did you check what exactly is causing the 100% active time?
With a click on the Open Resource Monitor it should be possible to figure out what reading/writing on drive E: is causing the 100% activity.

One of the reasons could be for instance the drive is not fast enough to get the read/write jobs done.


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I looked at the Open Resource Monitor however I don't know what any of it means or where I should be looking to find the information I need.

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