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System Hang On C Drive
I seem to have an intermittent problem with my system. Since the February Tuesday Patch Update, the system will seem to hang processing keyboard or mouse commands. If you try to execute a second activity before the prior activity is completed, the system will hang for many minutes and all during that time, the C drive will be 100% active even if it isn't reading or writing anything and the response times will be over 2,000 ms. Task Manager doesn't show any process hogging the drive. I have run the troubleshooting routine with nothing identified as wrong and Device manager states the drive is operating with no problems. I have been running backups of user files to a USB drive with no issues. I also ran dynamic file history to an internal HDD with no issues. Sometimes an application will generate a not responsive message, but left alone the app. eventually continues on. The driver for the C drive is listed as current. The system is circa 2009 and was a W7 originally and updated to W10 when the free update period was about to end. I'm currently copying the contents of the C drive to an external USB drive as an additional backup and I have a current MR system image on another USB drive. This morning when I booted the system, there was a boot message that the drive was not available and to press the space bar to continue. The first time the spinning disk was turning so slowly, it was multiple seconds between each dot moving. After many minutes, I forced a power off and then restarted the system. I got the drive not responding message again, but this time the system booted normally. I'm at a loss on what else to try and open to guidance. Since the CPU is not able to support W11, replacement is likely anyway, and not I'm turning the machine off.
Last edited by jamis; 27 Feb 2023 at 21:27.