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I have but just in case I missed something that starts it from another process is why I renamed the exe but so I do not lose it in case it affects something else.

I am running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit and not W10

Finally a solution. Thanks one and all for helping me eliminate what wasn't the problem. It turned out in the end to be a windows program called CompatTelRunner.exe that was the culprit. After reading about it and how to remove it (was said that you can delete it but all I did was rename it just...

Process explorer is used only as a status display and to kill processes when a normal method fails which happens very rarely. Will try what you suggest with resmon and let you know the results if any.

Thank you all for helping me eliminate another possibility. I have had no luck in finding what is accessing the disks during the lock out but at least I know the memory and drives are not the cause so it could be the CPU or some software that is the problem and it is most likely to be software...

Thanks for that advice although it does not answer the hickup I get when going to read or write from the disks or when I want to change directories. Although the delay is not that long it is annoying especially when I need it almost straight away. I will time the actual delay and at a guess it...

Defraggler gave me the following answers - This is for the C, D and E drives. F and H drives are similar to E. All copying is done inside the desktop and not over the network but when I copy over the network from PC to PC then it is via a 1GB switch. I don't know enough about computers to decide...

The numbers mean nothing much to me but I am glad that they help you all to point me in the right direction. Here are the new figures and thank you all for your help.

Never used this before but here goes.

https://hdd.userbenchmark.com/Toshiba-P300-1TB/Rating/3589

Toshiba HDWD 110 P300 1TB - read should be around 150 to 160 MB/s

By destroyed, I mean that I could not read the drive. Also the computer BIOS failed to recognise that the drive was installed. And when the computer was rebuilt using a windows 7 install disk and a new HDD, then (although now seen by the BIOS) I could not format the original drive or even...

Yes - original computer had only 1 drive in it but I added the rest. Spec below: Case InWIN G7 BRUSHED EFFECT DARK GREY CASE Processor (CPU) AMD A8-7600 Quad Core APU (3.1GHz) & Radeon™ R7 Series Graphics Motherboard ASUS® A88XM-PLUS: (M-ATX, DDR3, USB 3.0, 6Gb/s) Memory (RAM) 32GB Kingston...

My desktop had a crash which destroyed the C: drive and took out the video card as well. It did not appear to have touched the other drives I rebuilt it with a new disk for the C: drive and a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate x64 onto a 1TB internal hard drive and replaced the video card...