Win10 Anniversary Update - 100% disk usage & locking up
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This is doing my head in! Upgraded to Windows 10 a few weeks back - did the upgrade from Win7 initially, then a fresh install off an official ISO, so that I had an absolutely clean PC. Once i'd tweaked it to my preferences, ive been happy with it generally - runs nice and quick with my SSD.
Week or so ago let it update, and it installed this anniversary update (1607). Had all sorts of problems - start menu not appearing, graphic and audio glitches in games, but the big one was intermittent freezing for anywhere between 30 secs and 2 mins. Lasted a day and I rolled back to build 1511, and order was restored.
Today it insisted that I do the update again, as I can only defer it so long. I decided to do a clean install, so downloaded the latest ISO (already at build 1607) and installed.
Everything working ok, except I'm still locking up. From having task manager on, I can see that in fact its not the CPU, but the C:Drive that is hitting 100% for a couple of minutes.
Done a fair bit of googling, and seems I'm not the only one. Apparently it may be something to do with having an SSD as your primary drive, but a standard drive as your storage drive. I cant work out what is causing it - it just happens randomly whether I'm on a webpage, in a game (I play Fallout 4) or just going through the PC menus etc
I found this MS page and followed the advice, but it hasn't fixed it:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3083595
Anyone had this? Any suggestions to fix? Cant roll back as such, but I still have the build 1511 disk so I could do another clean install of that and try to stop it updating for a few months until MS fix it...
Specs:
Intel i7-2600k
16GB RAM
Samsung Crucial 240gb SSD
Win10 Pro
Week or so ago let it update, and it installed this anniversary update (1607). Had all sorts of problems - start menu not appearing, graphic and audio glitches in games, but the big one was intermittent freezing for anywhere between 30 secs and 2 mins. Lasted a day and I rolled back to build 1511, and order was restored.
Today it insisted that I do the update again, as I can only defer it so long. I decided to do a clean install, so downloaded the latest ISO (already at build 1607) and installed.
Everything working ok, except I'm still locking up. From having task manager on, I can see that in fact its not the CPU, but the C:Drive that is hitting 100% for a couple of minutes.
Done a fair bit of googling, and seems I'm not the only one. Apparently it may be something to do with having an SSD as your primary drive, but a standard drive as your storage drive. I cant work out what is causing it - it just happens randomly whether I'm on a webpage, in a game (I play Fallout 4) or just going through the PC menus etc
I found this MS page and followed the advice, but it hasn't fixed it:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3083595
Anyone had this? Any suggestions to fix? Cant roll back as such, but I still have the build 1511 disk so I could do another clean install of that and try to stop it updating for a few months until MS fix it...
Specs:
Intel i7-2600k
16GB RAM
Win10 Pro
Edited by daddy cool on Sunday 14th August 15:53
I'm sticking with 1511 untill MS sort out all the glitches. If you cant sort out your current problems i suggest you do a fresh install of 1511 and go into: Settings/Update and security/Windows update/Advanced options and check the defer upgrades box, This should stop it updating to 1607 
Take a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/4vufpo...
Touch wood, i may have fixed it... i did the following, based on various theories online:
- disabled prefetch & superfetch
- disabled windows search
- disabled chromes preloading of pages
But then i also tried to find updated SATA drivers for my motherboard (ASUS PZ68-V Pro) and found they didnt have any for Win10. Prior to Win10 i had always been strict about using the install disk, but with Win10 the OS seemed to provide all the drivers from the get-go. However, forcing it to update with the Win7 drivers it now means theres an Intel controller managing the drives, and my D Drive (1TB storage drive) now shows up in task manager along with the C drive.
Was doing a bit of surfing and gaming last night since that driver update and didnt experience any 100% C-drive lock ups or stability issues... fingers crossed! Thanks for help chaps.
- disabled prefetch & superfetch
- disabled windows search
- disabled chromes preloading of pages
But then i also tried to find updated SATA drivers for my motherboard (ASUS PZ68-V Pro) and found they didnt have any for Win10. Prior to Win10 i had always been strict about using the install disk, but with Win10 the OS seemed to provide all the drivers from the get-go. However, forcing it to update with the Win7 drivers it now means theres an Intel controller managing the drives, and my D Drive (1TB storage drive) now shows up in task manager along with the C drive.
Was doing a bit of surfing and gaming last night since that driver update and didnt experience any 100% C-drive lock ups or stability issues... fingers crossed! Thanks for help chaps.
Interesting I have the same board with no issues. Running Windows C: on a Crucial SSD with Intel and Kingston SSDs as other drive letters. I've got a hard drive attached for backups but that is connected by USB rather than SATA.
Had some blue screen issues with Windows 8.1 on the Intel drivers so have run with the Microsoft storage drivers ever since. They don't seem to hurt drive performance and no lock ups.
Had some blue screen issues with Windows 8.1 on the Intel drivers so have run with the Microsoft storage drivers ever since. They don't seem to hurt drive performance and no lock ups.
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