Windows 10 Windows 10 randomly freezes for about 10 seconds, UI continues to work, probably a disk issue

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When the freeze happens, mouse still can move, and moving the mouse over things like icons on desktop slightly highlights it, but nothing works(clicking on stuff, right clicking, trying to open task manager etc)

Looking at Resource Monitor while this happens shows that Disk activity completely falls to 0.


After the freeze ends, any actions I attempted are extremely quickly done, seemingly in order I did them.


Some context:

For several months I've had an unstable disk, and my boot partition was installed on it.

My computer would freeze randomly.


Today I reinstalled my Windows, and finally disconnected the faulty disk, and hoped that the issue would be fixed, however it was not.


My Windows are installed on a SSD, I also have another disk for my personal data that is a HDD.

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