Windows 10: Hard Drive Keeps Freezing, BUT, Thumb Drive Works

Discus and support Hard Drive Keeps Freezing, BUT, Thumb Drive Works in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; I'll start with the current news of today... I took a video from my hard drive (C:) and dragged it onto an old thumb drive, and it worked!... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by MortSahlFan, Apr 1, 2020.

  1. Hard Drive Keeps Freezing, BUT, Thumb Drive Works


    I'll start with the current news of today... I took a video from my hard drive (CHard Drive Keeps Freezing, BUT, Thumb Drive Works :) and dragged it onto an old thumb drive, and it worked!

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    I would have posted this days ago, but I hate asking for help, but I've had the flu for almost 2 weeks, and my laptop is really screwed up, and it's kinda my life, especially during this quarantine and all this free time.

    I've done all the scandisks, windows defender, anti-virus and it all comes clean. I've tried to do a Recovery, but it keeps failing, and its screwed up search settings and other things I'll hold off for another time. I've uninstalled programs, resets browsers, cache, cookies (so many password, ugh) defrag, optimize, disk cleanup.

    It's odd how I can't play a song on winamp (it keeps freezing, sometimes for a short while, sometimes for a really long time where I have to restart), which takes no RAM, and the videos that I have on my desktop for example, yet... videos work much better on YouTube. It was always the other way around, because of my slow internet connection. I can't even play a simple game like Age of Empires II, which I've had for many years.


    Barely over a year.
    AMD A-9-9420; Radeon R5, 5 Computer Cores, 2c+3G... 3.00 GHz
    64-bit, x-64 based processor

    I have a few things backed up, but I don't have anything more than a thumb drive. I get a lot of "No Responding", and when it comes to music or videos (but online videos work better surprisingly), it freezes up for a while, and then resume for a few seconds, sometimes for up to a minute. Same with a game I used to play. A few nights ago, I went about 5 minutes straight with no video interruptions (I use GOM player, and have tried others, no difference).

    I've only had this laptop for a little over a year, and the Norton expired not too long ago, which is what I initially thought. I installed malwarbytes, did a scan - nothing.. I uninstalled and installed AVG - same thing. I've used the RUN command to get rid of worthless programs I couldn't uninstall simply with Control Panels ,but still no difference.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated. I don't have the resources (or even a debit card) to find some sophisticated program online, so if you know something, I'd be very thankful in this very stressing time for me. Thanks!

    :)
     
    MortSahlFan, Apr 1, 2020
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  2. Overclock your hard drive!!!

    Heres a much easier hack that I realized quite a few years ago that really does work!

    REQUIREMENTS:
    • Hard drive with molex power connection.
    • PSU with more than 1 strand that has molex plugs on it.
    • Wire strippers, soldering iron if you're fancy, electrical tape if you're not.
    STEPS:
    • Take the strand of connectors from your PSU, and decide which one will be the donator for this overclocking adventure.
    • Cut the yellow and orange cables, then twist them together.
    • Find the power connector you've chosen as the overclocking connector, and release the orange cable from the connector. Now use your preferred method to bind them together, then place it back together.
    • Plug in a drive and feel the speed!
    Congratulations! You've just overclocked your hard drive!
     
    Sir B. Fannybottom, Apr 1, 2020
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  3. Zero Cool Win User
    Hard drive freezing

    your hard drive is freezing? what cooling you got?
     
    Zero Cool, Apr 1, 2020
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  4. Hard Drive Keeps Freezing, BUT, Thumb Drive Works

    Hard drive freezing

    First of all if you tried a different hard drive I doubt it's the hard drive freezing. Please check if your cooling is working properly (check temps, see if it's installed correctly). This goes for both the video card and CPU. If this isn't the issue see if it happens in safe mode, if it doesn't it might be some driver issue.
     
    DanTheBanjoman, Apr 1, 2020
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