Solved Task Manager shows HD running at near 100% -slow

wordman

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Brand new here. I have a complex problem. I started having trouble with my text to speech program playing in Win 8.1 - as the audio started breaking up when played. When trying to resolve this I noticed that task manager showed the HD was running at near 100% most of the time. I suspected that the HD was causing the audio problem with text to speech - which is the only audio problem I have. All other audio plays back normally. I tried all the HD fixes I could find online like disabling services like SuperFetch and windows search. Nothing has worked. I have also tried command prompts to test HD. All say its ok. I did a complete system restore and wiped the HD back to win 8. HD is not maxed with almost no programs installed. However, when Windows Update is running again it is running at 100% and the system is very slow. Windows update failed and said I need to install Windows Update software. I did that but there was a lot of updates since I had done a reinstall I got failure messages and Windows Update took 8 hours to install. BIG QUESTION. Could my HD be failing or is win 8 corrupt? I have refreshed the system a number times. Nothing has worked.

I have a Toshiba Satellite C855-S5350 Laptop. 2.4 processor 640gb HD, 6gb ram.
TIA
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Toshiba Satelitte c855-s5350
    Memory
    6gb
    Browser
    IE
    Antivirus
    AVG
If you wish, you can try running the commands below from Admin command prompt:


  1. dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
  2. sfc /scannow

In addition, download: CrystalDiskInfo.V6.2.0 and run it to see if you have any bad sectors on the HD.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    8.1x64PWMC Ubuntu14.04x64 MintMate17x64
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home Brewed
    CPU
    I7 4970K OC'ed @4.7 GHz
    Motherboard
    MSI-Z97
    Memory
    16 GB G-Skill Trident X @2400MHZ
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
    Sound Card
    X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dual HP-W2408
    Screen Resolution
    1920X1200
    Hard Drives
    256 GB M2 sm951, (2) 500GB 850EVO, 5TB, 2 TB Seagate
    PSU
    Antec 850W
    Case
    Antec 1200
    Cooling
    Danger Den H20
    Keyboard
    Logitech
    Mouse
    Logitech Performance Mouse MX
    Internet Speed
    35/12mbps
    Browser
    Firefox
Thank you for your response. I did try those things without success. However, I found a solution on another site that seems to have resolved the HD issue. The instructions were. "Go to: Control Panel/Troubleshooting/System and Security
Run troubleshooters to resolve problems with: Windows Update, Search and Indexing, and System Maintenance."
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Toshiba Satelitte c855-s5350
    Memory
    6gb
    Browser
    IE
    Antivirus
    AVG
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