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External Hard Drive Problem

  • 07-01-2006 9:58pm
    #1
    Puff Puff Pass
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    Im running XP and I purchased a 200GB 'Seagate' External Hard Drive' for added storage (Mainly Music Videos now totalling 30GB) I bought it about 2 months ago and it has been working perfectly and very very fast seamlessly playing all the videos (filesize 60MB on average)

    But today when I came back from work, I noticed some of the videos skipping at the start and sometimes in the middle and drive sometimes slow to browse through folders. I havent added anything to it in days and its only 40% used. This never happened before as it was perfect. When I copy the skipping files to my desktop and play them they play perfectly without skipping so im guessing the files arent corrupt.

    Any suggestions/help?


Comments

  • #2
    Villain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,956 ✭✭✭✭Villain


    Well I'd start with running a check disk.


  • #3
    zuma
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭zuma


    What processes are running in the background?

    Ive played music videos near the 200MB mark(insane aint it...50MB a minute!) and it would only skip if something else is gobbling up the CPU.


  • #4
    Puff Puff Pass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 121 ✭✭Puff Puff Pass


    Nothing running in the background - all processes are necessary windows ones and the CPU usage is only 8-12% when im playing the videos

    Im lost........the disk check showed nothing


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