harddrive freezing issues

[K3k0m@n]

i've been dealing with this issue for months and i've tried so many solutions
basically, sometimes* when trying to read from or write to the harddrive, it kinda 'locks up', freezing the entire computer sometimes for around 1-30 seconds. insanely annoying.
this pretty much makes my computer really hard to use or even impossible to use if i can barely do anything on it anymore due to this goddamn issue.
when i'm doing something entirely dependant to the harddrive, such as using a screen recorder, rendering a video or even copying files, it becomes impossible as the system just freezes.

*for around 1-2 weeks it keeps freezing, but then around a month of not freezing at all.

harddrives i have:



image:
see: both disks i have are affected. note the disk transfer rate; its completely blank when disk's active time is 100%, and only does very little transferring when not frozen. CPU is shown as it appears to spike at the only moment when the disk isn't frozen, showing that it's freezing everything else on my computer.


things i've tried already:

• checking cables in computer
• disabling 'superfetch' service
• disabling 'windows search' service
• restarting (you think i've kept my computer on for months?)
• removing resource-heavy programs (disabling steam made the freezes less frequent)
• changing 'power plan' options, setting disks to perform as high as possible at all times
• updating storage spaces controller drivers. right now i'm using the windows default, the motherboard i have (asus m5a78l-m) doesn't have any drivers for this higher then windows 7, and the windows 7 drivers bring up this error.
• checking temperature, both harddrives aren't overheating
• uninstalling windows 10 store apps (Candy Crush)
• manually setting the virtual paging file instead of letting windows 10 do it
• checking HDD health (completely healthy apparently)
• checking for viruses/malware
• changing SATA type in BIOS (caused windows 10 to bluescreen)
• running memtest, no errors/faults whatsoever
• i've probably forgotton a bunch of other things i've tried to solve this

computer specs if needed

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[Bisjac]

they both freeze when 1 is being used for whatever processes?

[K3k0m@n]

they both freeze when 1 is being used for whatever processes?

it happens both ways, if i'm doing something on disk 0, both freeze. if i'm doing something on disk 1, both freeze.

[Bisjac]

are other comp parts heat having issues during this exact moment? i would blame processor if that happened to me. maybe it hit a power or heat limit when it was working on that process.
my assumption since both hd's are being affected at once.

[Foopster]

Does your computer bsod? if so, what error is it? If its a machine check exception then your drives are forgeted.

[K3k0m@n]

Does your computer bsod? if so, what error is it? If its a machine check exception then your drives are forgeted.

i haven't had a bsod for about a year.

are other comp parts heat having issues during this exact moment? i would blame processor if that happened to me. maybe it hit a power or heat limit when it was working on that process.
my assumption since both hd's are being affected at once.

i've been keeping watch over it, and no, nothing appears to be hot when drives freeze

[NotBomberguy]

>d drive bigger than c drive
just use your d drive then
or is the d drive actually the hard drive

[Refticus]

>d drive bigger than c drive
just use your d drive then
or is the d drive actually the hard drive

C drive is his SSD; the D drive is his hard drive.

[K3k0m@n]

>d drive bigger than c drive
just use your d drive then
or is the d drive actually the hard drive

a lot of people store their OS and programs (sometimes games) on their smaller SSD to speed up read/write times by a lot, compared to just having a harddrive

[Shift Kitty]

Windows 10 will update store apps in the background, and will somehow use 100% disk if your computer doesn't consist of entirely SSDs or by some miracle it doesn't happen to you.

Try uninstalling the store apps that it comes with that you don't need.

a lot of people store their OS and programs (sometimes games) on their smaller SSD to speed up read/write times by a lot, compared to just having a harddrive

There's also cases where it's the same hard drive but separate partitions. Though this isn't the case here. Still important to note.

[K3k0m@n]

Windows 10 will update store apps in the background, and will somehow use 100% disk if your computer doesn't consist of entirely SSDs or by some miracle it doesn't happen to you.

Try uninstalling the store apps that it comes with that you don't need.

already done before i had this issue

[K3k0m@n]

bump

[K3k0m@n]

so i uhh
i replaced the sata cables inside my computer for some other ones i had laying around
and it seems to have improved it?? it's frozen like once so far but i've been able to do stuff mostly normally
i'l keep this open tho becuase i'm quite sure this is only a temporary fix

[The Murderous Cop]

you might want to get something to check your HDD health just in case

crystaldiskinfo is free and does the job, just go w/ standard edition because shizuku has weeb anime bullstuff

[K3k0m@n]

you might want to get something to check your HDD health just in case

crystaldiskinfo is free and does the job, just go w/ standard edition because shizuku has weeb anime bullstuff

oh ya i should've mentioned that this is one of the first things i did