An application stops responding when a file has a circular reference in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 - Microsoft SupportWindows 7 Enterprise Windows 7 Professional Windows 7 Ultimate Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Symptoms Consider the following scenario: You have an NTFS volume on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. The NTFS volume is affected by a circular reference issue that is caused by metadata corruption. You use
