Computer Freezing For a Few Minutes Randomly

Henry Hong · Apr 7, 2014

Every often or so my computer freezes for sometimes a minute, or sometimes ten minutes. This happens at all times. It may be more often when playing games but it only may seem that way because I'm usually only on to play games. When I'm playing games I'm only running Raidcall, Battle.net Client, and of course the game itself. I will occasionally have a Chrome browser open with a stream playing or a music site. I've heard this is the start that your hard drive is failing. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

This has been happening for awhile but it seems to be getting more frequent and longer.

My Computer (Main Parts):
Windows 7 Home Premium
GeForce GTX 760
Intel Core i3 CPU (540 @ 3.07GHz - 4 CPUs
4GBs Ram
465gb Harddrive (Currently can't take apart computer to get specifics)

Austin R · Apr 7, 2014

Have you tried cleaning out your PC?

Henry Hong · Apr 7, 2014

Austin R :

As in the inside, such as dust?

Austin R · Apr 7, 2014

No just running simple things like Ccleaner and such. Cleaning out the registry etc.
Always best to try the simple things first then test the hardware.

Henry Hong · Apr 7, 2014

Austin R :

Yes I have run CCleaner, and it seemed to do nothing. I always keep my PC clean from extra files and junk and keep a minimal amount of programs installed. I'm currently having to store almost 100 GBs of photos on this PC for family purposes. Could that be causing it?

Austin R · Apr 7, 2014

No this should not be causing it. Try running a virus scan with Malwarebytes; use the full scan option.

Henry Hong · Apr 7, 2014

Austin R :

Only one, some file called PDFConverter.

Austin R · Apr 7, 2014

Remove that one right away, see if that works if not continue to post on this thread.

Henry Hong · Apr 8, 2014

Construkt :

Since I currently don't have the money to get a new harddrive, I have an 1TB seagate USB harddrive. Could I use that to run the computer off?

Henry Hong · Apr 8, 2014

Construkt :

Henry Hong :

Yeah there's no reason you can't clone the hard drive to that and make that your boot drive and see if that fixes the issue.

Any specific way to clone it? I've never done this sort of thing and sadly I don't know where I placed my old Windows 7 key.

Henry Hong · Apr 8, 2014

Construkt :

Alright, may I leave the current harddrive in the PC just in case? The Seagate is USB connected so they can both easily stay in the system. Also do you recommend any certain software to use or Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 as the link stated?

Henry Hong · Apr 8, 2014

Construkt :

Before I dive into it I have a quick question on how to set your USB drive as your starting drive? I've attempted this in the past and was never succesful.

Austin R · Apr 8, 2014

Go into your bios and set the boot order.

Henry Hong · Apr 8, 2014

Construkt :

Alright, I found a free program called EaseUS to clone it to my external harddrive. Hopefully all goes well and I can avoid these random freezes. So basically never unplug the external one or my computer will crash I assume?

Henry Hong · Apr 8, 2014

Construkt :

It's in the process of cloning

. Assuming it is going to take awhile. Thanks for you help guys, really appreciate it! I'll let you know how it all goes after I get it booted up again.

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