I have allocated 57gigs for the partition where I have all my music. I totally have 18.5gigs of music. I had copied high quality videos from my friend's hard disk. Now what is happening is when I try to play the video, it plays as if it is playing from a scratched CD. I guess you know what I'm talking about. When I played for about 6 or 7 times, it was good. But now there is a lot of distortion. Will is be the hard disk problem? If at all it is, will I be able to fix it?

My hard disk is 12 days old *sad*

It is a 120gig Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm HDD.

do a chkdsk - will fix any potential errors

defrag - will resolve any defragmentation on it

Where is your paging file, if on same disc, this can cause issues as well.

This could be a software problem too. Uninstall all your codecs, download the newest version of xvid, divx and ac3 (these 3 codecs should be enough for most movies) and try again.

I also tried reinstalling Windows XP. No use. i copied the same videos from my friend's hard disk again. Still doesnt help. it gets stuck in the same place.

I observed Metallica's Nothing Else Matters video. It always gets distorted in the 2nd minute. I dont know why. I think it is a problem with the hard disk.

make sure your harddrive is set to DMA & NOT PIO this will cause choppyness

If you want to check your hdd for physical defects you can use programs from the manufacturer's site (powermax for mator, seatools for seagate, etc.). But from what you've said I don't think there is anything wrong with you hard disk.

Hope theres nothing wrong with my disk

just a thought.....

You bought thiis nnew right ? and your system is a little older ?

Check the ribbonn cable is a 133 annnd not a 33 or what ever.... the wrong ribbon cable may casue that.

hail hail

Yeah!

I totally forgot....I'll try changing it.