Windows 10: PC freezes for a few seconds every couple of minutes with a hard drive spin-up sound

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/drive-spinning-and-freezing-pc-for-a-few-seconds/22f4cdad-1403-4f81-950f-a782cd76be24This is a very persistent issue, I've had it 3 separate times now in the period of a few months and it just keeps coming back in different ways. Right now I'm experiencing it with no clues as to what could be causing it. There's no helpful information in the system or application logs of event viewer, the closest thing to a possibility is that I'm seeing a massive spam of "Audit success" around the same time as a freeze, usually, but not always. Possibly un

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Drive spinning and freezing pc for a few seconds

Hi, I've had issues with drives spinning and freezing my computer before, and fixed them, but it's started up again with absolutely nothing having been changed in my computer. My monitors stopped working when I woke up this morning, so I had to restart my computer by holding in the power button as I could not find the shut down button with no monitors. Restarting my PC worked, and I could see again, and then this issue began once more. The only changes I have seen are skype being installed for absolutely no reason, which was uninstalled manually by me later. Every 15 seconds or so, I hear a drive spinning up, and my PC freezes for the duration of the spin. Not really sure what to do, not sure what system information could be helpful on this either so please let me know what you need from me and I will get it ASAP.

 

Drive spinning and freezing pc for a few seconds again

Hi, I've had this issue 3 times now. All of the ways that I have tried to solve the issue in the past haven't worked this time, it's a complete mystery why this is happening.

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This is the last time that it happened, none of the solutions offered previously are working the third time around. Please let me know what information I need to give you and I'll have it ready for you as soon as I can.

 

Mechanical Hard Drive A:\

Thanks, that is interesting, that you could assign A: to a "traditional" spinning disk hard drive.

Yes it does sound like your drive is experiencing problems. Sorry, I don't recognize the symptoms so I can't suggest any trouble shooting steps.

So as I see it you have a few options:

- wait for suggestions from someone else

- take it in to a repair shop to see what they say

- try to DIY fix it. In past I've used earlier version of SpinRite:

GRC | Hard drive data recovery software  

- install a replacement drive (if you can afford it, go with a SSD even as a second drive. I'm about to do that too due to a noisie HD that sounds like it is about to die)