I did an upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8 and 8.1. In Windows 7 I had some issues but couldn't trace it down. When I went to Windows 8, things were fine, but for awhile. Same thing when I went to 8.1.
I finally ran the Advanced System Care - Ultimate and found issues with some possible malware and the way some applications were hogging resources. I then ran Malwarebyte's AntiMalware and found a whole bunch more. Once I did that, the issues went away. Also, how much RAM do you have on that laptop? You do know that if you have over 4gig of RAM you really don't need to run the Swap Disk. If you disable that then that should take care of the Disk I/O issues that you may be having. Another thing, since you say that this is an older laptop, does this use IDE or SATA for the interface from the hard drive to the laptop? IDE would be a 40 pin connector, whereas SATA would be a slot edge. If IDE, then the fastest thorough put would be about 150Mb per sec, and that is where your bottleneck is going to be. Hope this gives you some places to go look. Daniel On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Ryan Finnesey <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it possible my hardware is not compatible? It is a fairly old > laptop but the funny thing is it runs Windows 7 just fine. > > Sent from my iPad > > On Nov 8, 2014, at 9:55 PM, Manuel Santos <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have the same issue and think it's a faillure of windows 8.0 and 8.1 > > 2014-11-09 1:48 GMT+00:00 D R <[email protected]>: > >> Mine was 'a clean install' and I still had issues. >> >> Daniel >> >> On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Ryan Finnesey <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Did not think of that. It is a clean install of windows but I will >>> give it a try. Thanks >>> >>> Sent from my Windows Phone >>> ------------------------------ >>> From: D R <[email protected]> >>> Sent: 11/8/2014 7:50 PM >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] 100% disk activity? >>> >>> I had the same issue, as well. Found out that I had some malware on >>> my drive that caused this issue. You might want to download and run >>> Malwarebytes Anti-Malware on your system. Also, you may have some >>> background tasks on your system that may not register as malware but are >>> part of your boot up process and it just hangs the system up. >>> >>> Daniel >>> >>> On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Ryan Finnesey <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I am having an issue with a ThinkPad T400s. The hard drive is often >>>> at 100% disk activity and as a result programs lock up. When I look in >>>> task manager it is always the application I have in the foreground that is >>>> using the disk and not a background task. I thought it might be a hardware >>>> issue so I replaced the drive. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> But now I am thinking it is software related because I only have this >>>> issue under Windows 8.1 and not Windows 7. Any ideas? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> >>>> Ryan >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Daniel Rodriguez >>> [email protected] >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Daniel Rodriguez >> [email protected] >> > > -- Daniel Rodriguez [email protected]
