hard drive spins freezes up pc for about 30 seconds

[reddice]

Well if I use my pc for a while all of a sudden my hard drive will start spinning for about 30 seconds and nothing responds it acts like the pc is frozen then after about 30 seconds it works fine.
Also I can't run disk cleanup when I run it, it just stalls and does not responds.

This is what I have running in my task manager:
Image Name User Name
taskmgr.exe Tony Ramirez
iexplore.exe Tony Ramirez
PTFB.exe Tony Ramirez
MSBNTray.exe Tony Ramirez
realsced.exe Tony Ramirez
CCAPP.EXE Tony Ramirez
explorer.exe Tony Ramirez
devldr32.exe Tony Ramirez
svchost.exe SYSTEM
nvsvc32.exe SYSTEM
NAVAPSVC.EXE SYSTEM
DKService.exe SYSTEM
spoolsv.exe SYSTEM
CCEVTMGR.EXE SYSTEM
svchost.exe SYSTEM
svchost.exe SYSTEM
lsass.exe SYSTEM
services.exe SYSTEM
winlogon.exe SYSTEM
csrss.exe SYSTEM
smss.exe SYSTEM
System SYSTEM
System Idle Process SYSTEM
svchost.exe NETWORK SERVICE
alg.exe LOCAL SERVICE
svchost.exe LOCAL SERVICE

Thats everything that is running so do you have a idea what is wrong. The way it is going I am just going to end up formating my pc and starting over again.

[pmckinnie]

My first thought would be to shut down about 90% of the stuff you have running. What is most likely happening is that one or more of those programs is writing to the hard drive and that stops everything. Going back and reading your list again, nothing needs to be running in that group. They can be started when you need to run them.

You can go to start --run--msconfig--startup tab and remove the check from all the boxes a possible leaving only systray, antivirus, and firewall if you have one. Then reboot and see if you still have the same problem.

Post back with the results.

gl mac

[SuperSparks]

In Task Manager make sure that you've got CPU & CPU Time showing in the Processes tab (View>Select columns). Keep Task Manager open on the Processes tab, and next time the 'puter does it see which process is grabbing all the CPU cycles. Hopefully that'll help identify the source of the problem.