Windows 8.1 - HDD spinning at 100% even though no read/write

performance hard-drive virus windows-8.1

Solution 1:

By looking at the trace I can see that you disabled Write Caching for the HDD.

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This slows down the HDD extremely. Go to the device manager and enable Write Caching again:

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This should improve the performance.

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