100% Disk Usage on my ASPIRE 3 laptop

MaddySL

Hi all, I recently bought a aspire A315-54 Laptop , i instantly knew that the laptop is working slow even though it's brand new .then i used the task manager to see whats really going on....i noticed that when ever i copy my files to another drive ..The disk usage is going up to 100% ..is this normal ? or do you have any suggestion for me  to resolve this ?

GAMING6698

@MaddySL
It's normal that the HDD usage spikes whenever you do a hard drive diagnostic test. Such utilities put additional stress on the drive during the testing,copying,antivirus scanning.
You could try 
Open my pc right click on the drive you want to scan. Click Properties, go to the Tools tab and click Check Now

MaddySL

My problem is whenever i copy a file within my computer the disk usage goes to 100% as shown in below screen shot ..and while copying my computer becomes so slow 

GAMING6698

@MaddySL
See the known issue here first: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/fix-100-disk-usag...

Test your Hard drive with diagnostics, preferably bootable: https://www.lifewire.com/free-hard-drive-testin...

Follow that with a Disk Check: https://www.groovypost.com/howto/check-hard-dri...

Go over this checklist to make sure the install is set up correctly, optimized for best performance, and any needed repairs get done: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki...

AnthonyD123

Hello,

I have a very new laptop, the A514-52 model. I paid at least 500 Euro for it and its actually awful. The CPU occasionally runs at a very high CPU Usage but goes very quicly down as i click on Task Manager so that it appears its not. It just cannot handle software such as adobe or even the SKY Software or it will run up to 100% CPU and high memory usage.

I had an Acer for 5 years or 20 before this one and caused me little to no trouble. I had a HP Pavillion Touch Screen that caused so much trouble before this. I bought it in Currys who would not give me my money back only a refund so i could not even go elsewhere for a different laptop.

The customer assistant showed me how the shop model handled multiple applications open at ones and he described the 10th Gen I3 as the Turbo Edition one.

Has anyone any ideas how this can be fixed?

Dense

Dont know if you will see this or not but i had the same issue with my laptop from day one. And i still use my laptop just fine, I think its more likelly to happen if you have an intel optane or m.2 drive, seems like the longer you dont address the issue the worse it gets because I have checked my hdd and it has bad sectors on it, acers apps will tell you otherwise use crystal disk to check if your hdd is still in good condition.

You can try to alleviate this problem by unpluging your laptop, as this might remove the 100% drive usage for as long as you have it plugged out and try to enable and disabling intel rapid storage technology  

Hope this helps

ttttt

@MaddySL and @Densel

Are you still using traditional, spinning HDD in your systems? If so, it will be slow for sure. If the copying process involves one spinning HDD, it will be slow and disk utilization will become 100% too. Make sure you don't use third party antivirus software.
Also, the size of the data to be copied will determine how much time needed.

If possible, make sure to use M.2 NVMe SSD for faster speed.

padgett

Do you have an external SD slot with an SD card in it. If so try removing it and see what happens. Have seen Win 11 treat an SD slot badly. Same card in a USB adapter works fine.

Dense

did some research and it turns out the specific hdd acer was using for these laptops had really high failure rates. So would get a laptop malfunctioning hdd from the day you got it, swapping out the hdd will fix this issue it does not need to be a ssd just a hhd in good condition.

Swapped mine for a hdd I had lying around, 'I repeat lying around" and still haven't had the same issue to this day.

I really don't recommend buying acer laptops anymore.

padgett

I replace HDDs with a $50 500GB SSD as soon as they arrive. Just make sure it comes with cloning software and create a recovery disk (16GB microSD is good) first.