Satellite P775 getting stuck on extensive disk usage

Hello
I have a strange problem on my Toshiba Satellite P775 laptop with Windows 7.
From time to time, the laptop is starting slow and heavy I/O operations (I can see it via the disk monitoring indicator). Windows does not crash, but the heavy I/O makes the laptop unusable.
Recently I reinstalled Windows (back to factory settings), but the issue did not go away.
Few words about "getting stuck":
1. After laptop was cooled down for long time - more than 1 hour - never happens upon initial boot.
2. When a problem starts, it does not disappear after shutdown and restart of the laptop
3. Sometimes happens during login process (getting stuck during the login)
4. Never happened to me while working in the "safe mode".
5. Windows does not crash, the mouse is usually responsive - just very heavy and slow disk access makes virtually every application unusable.
*The most recent finding (quite shocking to me): once it happens while being on power, I tried to disconnect the power cord, and then plug it in again after few seconds. To my surprise, the "interrupt" caused by the power connectivity - caused the laptop to return back to normal.*
Any hint on how to debug and fix the problem?
Thanks for care,
Max

Hi
In my opinion there are different reasons for that.
First reason might be a high amount of processes running in the background
Theoretically it could be possible that an process stresses the CPU and therefore the notebook performance slows down.
An HDD issue might cause such problems too.
As you see its really difficult to say what could cause this problem.
From my point of view you should start with the running processes.
Check the CPU usage in the task manager (CPU tab) while this issue happens.

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