For more than a year I have experienced freezes of several minutes, sometimes more than once in a flight. My system is fairly recent and 'robust' in terms of disk, ram, graphics card, etc. I have tried all the possible solutions suggested on the various forums etc, to no avail. I have noticed that these freezes are always accompanied by the windows error: "Disk has been surprised removed", referring to one of the virtual disks that msfs creates for internal management. As soon as this error is generated msfs remains unusable for a few minutes, sometimes up to 7/8. Then it starts working again as if nothing had happened. Has anyone else noticed this relationship between the event of the virutal disk being removed and freze or similar problems? Thank you.

Sounds more like something is crashing the sim, thus that virtual drive is removed, generating the 'Disk has been surprised removed' error, not that being the problem in itself.

29 minutes ago, Sethos said:

Sounds more like something is crashing the sim, thus that virtual drive is removed, generating the 'Disk has been surprised removed' error, not that being the problem in itself.

Thanks for you replay. As I wrote the sim doesn't crash.

Doing  a  google  on your  issues  will bring up a few  solutions  for  you hopefully  one  of  them   suits  you,  one solution  of  a  user  of  the  same  issues   is  doing  a  complete reinstall  which  solved  his  issue  another  one   which  says  a loose  port  or  cables  between  your  hard  drive,  and  another  one  was  stating  it  was  the  usb  power  management

Edited September 15, 20232 yr by pete_auau