Suddenly its getting stuck and has not made any progress in the last 4 days. The computer is all frozen/unresponsive and won't let me open anything up.
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1000 GB hard drive. There is Norton running in the background
Restart your computer > stop Norton > if you still experience frozen screens or screen stutters without running Bitcoin Core, then it could be one of the following things:
- Your 1TB HDD is almost full [due to other stuff (e.g. movies, games and etc...)].
- Your HDD is starting to fail.