I tried the suggestions offered on Youtube and no luck. This is the only that that worked for me. The solution is to unplug the external USB storage. The moment you do this, the disk usage will get back to normal.
THE REAL REASON : If we have 2 drives on our PC and we are using any one of them for any high disk usage task, it uses complete 100% capacity of that disk, but the task manager says disk usage as total disk usage of the PC which included all the drives, so 1 drive where your program is running uses 100% disk but another drive is not used at all so 0-1% and the disk USAGE tab in the task manager gives it as an average as [100%(disk 1) + 0%(disk 2)] / 2 (no. of disks) = 50% as an average ... so basically as soon as you remove your hard drive the no of drives goes to 1 which is used 100%
you may check that under the performance tab of your task manager!
thefreak
I am upset this was the solution, but I'm very glad you made this video because I'd have never guessed
kiraryuuza
Um, this doesn't actually change anything. Your disk speed goes from 50% to 100% because you removed one portable HDD. The one drive was at 100%, while the other was at 0%. Resulting in an average of 50% during your normal usage. While if you look at specific performance you would see your main drive at 100%. The only thing this changed was removing a drive and making it display differently. It's not really addressing any problems.
jonathanjoyce
So I actually tried something similar and the disk usage finally went down after numerous attempts to fix it!
Here's a potential fix which is worth a try:
Settings>Devices>Bluetooth & other devices, remove different devices like mouse, keyboard, audio if not all and then simply replug them. Keep a look at device manager's disk usage.
__NightOwl
I unplugged my USB External HDD and the drive and that fixed my problem. It is almost like the two RAID1 disk drives I have were throttled back to the speed of the external HDD that was attached to that external HDD (Which is older and has a lower data transfer speed). Thank you so much for posting this video Jay!
stevemerrell
wow it really worked lol, my pc was capped at 50% usage and the second I unplugged my Usb drive it went to 100% and then down to around 5% like it should have been, Thanks!
ZyDN
Um, I got this issue because I plug in a USB drive for a long time, I guess from the morning and when I open task manager it shows only 50% disk usage.
After watching this I realise I haven't unplug my USB. So after doing that everything is running normal.
vemoryu
thanks bro, i facing this problem, i tried every solution on internet, but no luck, finally i found this videos, and yah i must admit its the external harddisk creating problem, the moment i removed external harddisk, taskmanager showed correct disk usage
thanks bro, i was about to reinstall windows
mkumar
That is CRAZY and RIDICULOUS problem.
Your solution Worked for me.
I wish I had never needed some apps in Windows. Windows is making me crazy...
s.alihaieri
Thank you so much! It actually fixed it after unplugging all the usb, from 50% it dropped to 0-1%
Also related to the struggle of finding a solution 😂
kiosdaf
I unplug every USB in my computer, and it went down from 50% to 1%. It worked thx
TheProGamerVibes
i have this same problem again But I used a new solution. For anyone who uses vscode and it's very slow, try deleting and reinstalling it. it work for me
TheProGamerVibes
I know I'm not drunk but i have that issue, after watching the video it went away, I didn't have to unplug anything i just watched the video and my pc said "fine i'll fix myself", it went from constant 50% to now 3% i am confused
jeemixholard
You're kidding. I had only a wireless keyboard plugged in. Once I unplugged it, CPU went down to 3% !!!. Thanks a lot man.
TheMaecki
Worked perfect. Not sure why it did that, but whatever, thanks for the fix!
svndwich
SO uhh that main tab in task manager combines the usage percentage of both disks. so when u removed the external disk the windows started to show the performance of one disk only
u can check if that is the case in the performance tab
Grandeur_edits
I don't use Adobe app but when I unplugged my external hard drive it went to 100% again now I just have to learn how to fix it...
ScrewupReneGaming
I am still wondering how this solution works, But i am thankful because it works.
kinqmoose
Hello
I am using 2 drives. Using Windows 10 in SSD as fast as I want my laptop to work. And there's a 1TB hard drive for data storage that replaces the CD player.
The problem is that I have Windows 10 installed from Microsoft and it works fine. But all of a sudden my drive stuck at 50% and at that time, my laptop stops working. It stuck. After 30 40 seconds, this condition goes away on its own. I saw it in Task Manager where I can see my Disk at 50%.
This condition does not always occur. Sometimes this problem comes after a few minutes again and again and sometimes not even come after several hours. It was a new drive so I changed it and got a new one. But the problem is the same.
Can anyone help me so that I can fix this problem?
Thanks
umardawood
Thank you very much. You are a genius :)
After all that google search and weird stuff I tried, it just was an external hdd connected by usb at my pc's frontside...
