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And that's what I'll do. I'm sorry to have bothered you this much, I appreciate all the help

Hi again, I've taken a closer look to my caviar green drive, and it turns out it has bad sectors. So you were right abour a damaged HDD. I'm going to replace it with a non-green drive. Thanks for all your help Edit: Or maybe not. Why are tools inconsistent on this matter? CrystalDiskInfo and Easeus partition manager gave 2 bad sectors (CrystalDisk via S.M.A.R.T., Easeus scanned the whole drive) and WD's own tool (scan) and the one I use before (S.M.A.R.T.) didn't.

Ah yes, I have the drive mostly for backup purposes, but with one partition where skydrive syncs to, with the new office also syncing. Just curious though, should the same delay occur when I disconnect the drive? I did, and it did occur. I'll look into the power saving. I'm guessing it should help if I move the O: partition to the caviar black drive? And just for my understanding of the traces: you mention activity before I stopped the trace, this is during the hanging or after?

Hi MagicAndre, I'm sorry it took me a while to respond, I've been a bit busy. I've send you a link to a ETL file. The trace ran for about 130 seconds.