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    Windows 7 Windows 7 experiences 100% disk busy and system compleltely unresponsive

    My problem turned out to be a bad disk drive. Even though there were no related events in the Windows event log, and the drive's SMART data didn't show any problems, I finally managed to install and run the WD diag software and it immediately reported drive failures. (I had to install it because...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 experiences 100% disk busy and system compleltely unresponsive

    There is no VPN client installed on this machine. It's a pretty vanilla 64-bit Windows 7 system on a core i7-920 machine with 6G RAM. Usually when it happens I don't get the luxury of actually running anything. Just opening a Windows Explorer window can take several minutes. In this...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 experiences 100% disk busy and system compleltely unresponsive

    Any resolution to this? I'm experiencing the same problem (not sure about pagefile usage - I've got 6G RAM, and it's not coming close to using half of it). When I'm lucky enough to get Task Manager up and get to Resource Monitor, the Disk tab shows serious disk activity but doesn't show any...
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