Hard Disk problem?

[subhramani]

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.

[oioldman]

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.

[Jonic]

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.

[subhramani]

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.

[MCT]

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

[Jonic]

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.

[subhramani]

Hope theres nothing wrong with my disk

[brian873]

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

[subhramani]

Yeah!

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