a couple of weeks ago, i noticed that the computer starting hiccuping when playing HD (mostly 720p, but some 1080p content as well)...it would freeze for 60-90 seconds and then video would resume...these were, for the most part, being run from an external USB hard drive, though some were on an internal drive, as well

then music being played from the same internal drive started doing the same thing...winamp would just pause for a while and then pick up right where it stopped...this happens most often when i'm transferring large files (1-2gb per...this is my video editing machine), so while i had never experienced that before (i mean, i've listened to music while doing large file transfers and such without any trouble), i thought it might be that the drive was overtaxed (which is stupid, but whatever)

not long after that, i turned on my computer one day and chkdsk came up saying that the drive (my storage one i've been having trouble with, not the OS drive) was corrupt in some way and it took about 2 hours to completely "rebuild it" (i had never seen this before...it was rebuilding the index - think - and it was flashing the filenames of just about every file i had on there)...when it rebooted, everything was fine...this drive is 2tb and is almost always full...i defragged it just because and went along my merry way

yesterday my video driver (nvidia) driver crashed for no apparent reason and it's back to being ridiculously slow and hiccuping while playing files...suggestions? it's a legal copy of windows 7 ultimate x64, has 8gb of ddr2 and a c2d e6850 processor

11/6/2010 9:29:43 AM

try checking your sound and video cards

11/6/2010 11:55:12 AM

integrated sound...i updated to the latest nvidia drivers AFTER this started happening and it didn't seem to make any difference

11/6/2010 2:00:38 PM

possible malware or virus? See if your cpu usage is 100 percent when it does this freezing... and what process is causing it in the task manager.

11/6/2010 2:53:20 PM

Run HD Tune and see what it says under "health" tab
http://www.hdtune.com/download.html

(just the home/free version is fine.)

11/6/2010 3:02:31 PM

Could be the drive, underfunded or bad memory modules, overheated or undervolted cpu

11/6/2010 3:32:55 PM

if you have to ask...

11/10/2010 8:31:16 PM

i tried to back it up using acronis and then just normal copy-and-paste, but both methods would crap out on me mid-process because of some I/O errors when trying to copy some of the files

i'm in the process of using teracopy to actually copy everything (because it will continue after those errors and give me a list of files that were problematic) to a new drive...slow going, but i'm almost done (2tb takes a while!)

i'm not sure what's up with the drive...i'll run hd tune after everything is copied, to see if it comes back with anything, but i'll probably just toss it, anyway

11/11/2010 9:15:23 AM

I think mines going

I can hear the head clicking every second now

I FOUND A FIX FOR MY CLICKING HDD!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMhdEp3SM_w

thinking about going with....
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148591

though I'd love something with 1 Tb @ 7200 RPM (Sata, 2.5")
W7 Pro
Dell XPS M1530
any suggestions?

[Edited on November 11, 2010 at 9:53 AM. Reason : .]

11/11/2010 9:31:12 AM

what's the best way to copy a file regardless of CRC errors?

11/14/2010 9:45:44 AM

ah, i just added the files to an ISO image (took about 3 hours for 88mb) and then extracted them...a couple seem to actually be damaged, but the rest seem fine

i ran hd tune on the "bad" drive and it came back with 5 "damaged" blocks (0.2% of the drive)...what does this even mean? does it just mean the files are corrupt or is the drive bad?

11/15/2010 9:05:43 AM

Hiren's Boot CD + HD Sentinal has always given me useful information. There are also other Disc utilities that should help you pull the data off.

11/15/2010 9:26:42 AM