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Why is chkdsk using 90% of my RAM?

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 202619802 views
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When I built my new computer, I gave my old one to my parents who were in dire need of an upgrade, after cleaning everything out of it, of course, leaving just the OS and a few programs. It worked fine for a while, before it started to fail to load Windows (it would just get stuck). After investiga…

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Fix for: Why is chkdsk using 90% of my RAM?

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If it's been running for several days, I'm assuming that you ran with the flag. With Windows 7, using that much RAM is normal. Source The file system team immediately began to look into the issue. [...][F]rom their perspective the memory usage was b…

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