Well you aren't crashing, exactly, you are experiencing what sounds like a disk throughput problem.

There is soemthing that may have happened if you are running XP:

The disk could have showed 6 errors in a row and the OS could have reverted the disk from DMA to PIO operation. PIO is characterized by high CPU usage when the disk is spinning (as indicated by the disk busy LED) and longer bootup times.

Control Panel -> System -> Hardware -> Device Manager -> IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers

Check the Properties of the channel your hard drive is on, usually the first Primary if C: drive, by rightclicking and selecting Properties, then selecting Advanced Properties from the top tab.

If you see "PIO" in any of the dropdown windows there, your disk has reverted.

Try resetting it to the highest DMA setting available and reboot if such is the case.

If that clears the problem by indicating a return to UDMA or DMA after a reboot and revisit, then do the disk cleanup followed by defrag immediately.

If the disk is already set to DMA or UDMA, then proceed to the Disk Cleanup and then Defrag before trying anything else. BB with RealTracks needs not only some disk space, but a defragmented disk in order to operate properly.

There can be other reasons for what you are experiencing. This is the most likely, thing, the disk health, from your description of the problem, though.


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