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Windows 7 freezes on hard disk activity

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Mar 15, 202616353 views
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Sometimes my Win7 completely freezes, even mouse pointer doesn't move. It happens only on really hard disk activity (when I perform VM suspend or whole disk antivirus scan, for example). After some seconds all is ok again. Any ideas?

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Fix for: Windows 7 freezes on hard disk activity

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You should probably check whether your HDD controller drivers are installed correctly. Drives accessed in PIO mode instead of DMA mode could render your system unresponsive during HDD operations due to high interrupt load. To determine which disk co…

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