hard drive - Windows 10 - Task Manager Says Disk Is At 100% Usage

OS: Windows 10 (Pre-Installed)

RAM: 8GB

Storage: 500GB free

Processor: i5

Disk Type: Hard Drive

I have had Windows 10 for over a year now and it has been fine (a part from corruption about 6 months ago).

However, yesterday, I got an update for Windows 10 as well as uninstalling an old driver and installing a new one for a graphics tablet I just got. Today, I noticed games running slower than usual and freezing sometimes.

Task Manager and Resource Manager both say my disk is at 100% usage:

I'm not sure if this is related to the drivers or update. I tried reverting to the previous Windows 10 update, as well as uninstalling the driver, but nothing changed.

I have tried many suggestions from the web such as:

• Disabling Superfetch, Windows Search, BITS


• Editing the AHCI in the registry

None of them worked.

I am doing an anti-virus scan currently.

Any ideas what I could do?

EDIT:

Many people have been pointing out that McAfee is taking up a lot of the disk usage. This is because I was running a scan during the screenshot. Without McAfee scanning, it is still at 100% disk usage overall, but McAfee is not up there.

Not sure if this changes anything.

EDIT 2:

Found a fix.

See my answer, below.

Answer

So, I think I've found it. Unless my computer just decided to stop being stubborn, this command seemed to work:

chkdsk /R

(Check Disk and fix any problems).

It still has 100% Disk Usage when I load my PC, but I guess that is normal loading stuff. After 5 minutes or so it drops down to 1% or 0%.

Check Disk was the last thing I tried before it started working, so I assume that's what did it.

Thanks for the help, anyway!