subhramani Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oioldman Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 do a chkdsk - will fix any potential errorsdefrag - will resolve any defragmentation on itWhere is your paging file, if on same disc, this can cause issues as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonic Posted November 1, 2004 Share Posted November 1, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subhramani Posted November 2, 2004 Author Share Posted November 2, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCT Posted November 2, 2004 Share Posted November 2, 2004 make sure your harddrive is set to DMA & NOT PIO this will cause choppyness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonic Posted November 2, 2004 Share Posted November 2, 2004 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subhramani Posted November 2, 2004 Author Share Posted November 2, 2004 Hope theres nothing wrong with my disk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian873 Posted November 2, 2004 Share Posted November 2, 2004 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
subhramani Posted November 2, 2004 Author Share Posted November 2, 2004 Yeah! I totally forgot....I'll try changing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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