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Windows 10 releases lead to full disk utilization

Windows 10 releases lead to full disk utilization

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britek
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01-06-2022, 08:33 PM
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Hey everyone, two days ago my computer got an update to the newest Windows version. Everything seemed perfect until I restarted it. When it booted again, the whole system felt very slow—almost like it was crawling. After that, I opened Task Manager and noticed my system drive was completely full. This has happened before in June too; eventually the machine would freeze and start a repair mode, which sometimes ended with a blank screen saying “blinitializelibrary failed 0xc00000bb.” In June I fixed it by rebuilding the boot order manually, and Windows managed to fix itself afterward (though all my apps were lost). I also saw that Windows didn’t try to reinstall the June update this time. When I first saw the problem, a repair attempt didn’t help. Then I tried uninstalling the update, but the computer would time out and crash repeatedly. Eventually I gave up and decided to do a clean install using a bootable USB drive. That worked perfectly—apps were reinstalled, everything felt normal.

Now, this morning Windows is trying to update itself again. When I turned it on, I was greeted by the same full drive warning in Task Manager. I ran a defrag, but it didn’t help. Then I tried launching Advanced Startup and checked my motherboard BIOS, finding nothing out of the ordinary. After booting up, I attempted to uninstall the update instead of just repairing it. The process crashed repeatedly, and the drive stayed pinned at 100%.

I’m wondering what’s going on with this machine. It seems like only my PC is behaving this way. I have an AMD Ryzen 7 3000 series, a Gigabyte mini ITX board, and a 2TB Corsair NVMe drive—my main storage and system drive. I recently installed Corsair’s SSD Toolbox to update the firmware, but it told me the drive was already up to date. Now it’s acting strange again.

Any tips would be appreciated. Besides switching to Linux, I’ve noticed other systems update smoothly without issues. Could be something specific to this hardware or version?
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britek
01-06-2022, 08:33 PM #1

Hey everyone, two days ago my computer got an update to the newest Windows version. Everything seemed perfect until I restarted it. When it booted again, the whole system felt very slow—almost like it was crawling. After that, I opened Task Manager and noticed my system drive was completely full. This has happened before in June too; eventually the machine would freeze and start a repair mode, which sometimes ended with a blank screen saying “blinitializelibrary failed 0xc00000bb.” In June I fixed it by rebuilding the boot order manually, and Windows managed to fix itself afterward (though all my apps were lost). I also saw that Windows didn’t try to reinstall the June update this time. When I first saw the problem, a repair attempt didn’t help. Then I tried uninstalling the update, but the computer would time out and crash repeatedly. Eventually I gave up and decided to do a clean install using a bootable USB drive. That worked perfectly—apps were reinstalled, everything felt normal.

Now, this morning Windows is trying to update itself again. When I turned it on, I was greeted by the same full drive warning in Task Manager. I ran a defrag, but it didn’t help. Then I tried launching Advanced Startup and checked my motherboard BIOS, finding nothing out of the ordinary. After booting up, I attempted to uninstall the update instead of just repairing it. The process crashed repeatedly, and the drive stayed pinned at 100%.

I’m wondering what’s going on with this machine. It seems like only my PC is behaving this way. I have an AMD Ryzen 7 3000 series, a Gigabyte mini ITX board, and a 2TB Corsair NVMe drive—my main storage and system drive. I recently installed Corsair’s SSD Toolbox to update the firmware, but it told me the drive was already up to date. Now it’s acting strange again.

Any tips would be appreciated. Besides switching to Linux, I’ve noticed other systems update smoothly without issues. Could be something specific to this hardware or version?

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01-06-2022, 08:33 PM
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The system is utilizing the disk for data storage and retrieval processes.
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01-06-2022, 08:33 PM #2

The system is utilizing the disk for data storage and retrieval processes.

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01-06-2022, 08:33 PM
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These are the leading four applications, operating at speeds between 0.1 MB/s and 0.4 MB/s. Other tasks are also running, but overall performance peaks near 0.1 MB/s with roughly ten such processes active.
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01-06-2022, 08:33 PM #3

These are the leading four applications, operating at speeds between 0.1 MB/s and 0.4 MB/s. Other tasks are also running, but overall performance peaks near 0.1 MB/s with roughly ten such processes active.

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