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Kyle Traver

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I have had this problem for the last few weeks now. Whenever I start a disk defragment or a back up, my entire PC locks up and I have to hit the power button to make it stop. It has recently started doing the same thing with Star Citizen as well. I do not use the defult disk defragment that windows provides I use Defraggler. I am able to play other games for hours with no problems what so ever. I played WoW for 3 hours last night with no trouble but Star Citizen only lasted for a few minutes. Any help would be deeply appreciated!

Here are my specs:
128G SSD
2x 1TB WD Blue hard drives
Intel Core i5-3470 (CPU)
ASRock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155 (MOBO)
280x gigabyte GPU
2x Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer 8GB (2 x 4GB)
SeaSonic X Series X-850
 
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DonQuixoteMC
So, just to clarify:

The drive that has Star Citizen on it (the only game that crashes) is the drive that you cannot defragment because it freezes?

The common denominator between these problems is that hard drive. Try checking the SMART values. It might have some/a lot of bad sectors. There are a bunch of ways to do this, I recommend googling to find the best method for you.

Also try running in elevated command prompt (Command Prompt run as an Administrator): "CHKDSK :X /R"
Where "X" is the letter of the drive you're having problems with, and /R tells CHKDSK to attempt to repair any bad sectors.

For example, if I were to check and attempt to repair my A:\ drive, I would run the following command:
CHKDSK :A...
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Kyle Traver

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My SSD only has the OS on it. One drive has all of my games on it, around 500g right now. The second drive has only Star Citizen on it, before I used that drive it was my back up drive. But every time I would try to back up on it, it froze up after I did the very first back up. It is also the drive I am trying to defragment. I hope that makes sense.
 
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velo3100

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I think DonQuixoteMe is asking is if the hard drive that is used for backup is nearly full. If it is then that would explain the lag spike.
 
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Kyle Traver

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No it is no where near full it still has 800g plus of space available.

 
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So, just to clarify:

The drive that has Star Citizen on it (the only game that crashes) is the drive that you cannot defragment because it freezes?

The common denominator between these problems is that hard drive. Try checking the SMART values. It might have some/a lot of bad sectors. There are a bunch of ways to do this, I recommend googling to find the best method for you.

Also try running in elevated command prompt (Command Prompt run as an Administrator): "CHKDSK :X /R"
Where "X" is the letter of the drive you're having problems with, and /R tells CHKDSK to attempt to repair any bad sectors.

For example, if I were to check and attempt to repair my A:\ drive, I would run the following command:
CHKDSK :A /R

The command is not case sensitive.
 
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Kyle Traver

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I am running it now. Thank you hopefully it finds something.
 
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