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Welcome back! Can you provide a link to the forums/threads that you have been asking questions? So we can review what's happened while you were away.
Looking at your laptop hardware, i'm not surprised that the system appears to be locking up. You have a slow disk access and this will take some time for data to be written to and from the disk. (Unless you have replaced the original shipped one for a SSD)
Patience is required!! I normally leave the computer to idle for 10-15 mins before using it, so it can get itself sorted out!
How big are your external disks? How much free space do they have on each?
Do you have/have you backed up ALL your original software installation programs? e.g. Office / Adobe / etc.