Films keep stopping while watching them from new Hard Drive

explicit4u · 22 Jan 2009 at 21:26

I recently bought a Samsung Spin-point F1 1TB Hard drive and i immediately copied some ripped films onto my new Hard drive. However i found that every couple of minutes the hard drive will just stop playing the film for a couple of minutes and just randomly pick up where it should have been if it had carried on playing, this gets really annoying as i have to copy every single film to my main hard drive then watch it and delete.

rodo · 22 Jan 2009 at 22:02

Noob suggestion but have a look in event log for errors

StephenLawUK · 22 Jan 2009 at 22:03

tried connecting it to a different sata port if you have any others spare?

Mr-White · 22 Jan 2009 at 22:20

samsung HUTIL

MW

miniyazz · 22 Jan 2009 at 22:23

Sounds a bit like you've got your power settings to turn off hard drives after a certain amount of inactivity maybe? Go to power settings and turn that off (advanced settings for your power plan) and see if it helps.

explicit4u · 22 Jan 2009 at 22:31

StephenLawUK said:
tried connecting it to a different sata port if you have any others spare?

Tried a different SATA port/cable and a different Hard Drive and none seem to be the culprit.

Mr-White said:
samsung HUTIL

MW

Will Try that later.

miniyazz said:
Sounds a bit like you've got your power settings to turn off hard drives after a certain amount of inactivity maybe? Go to power settings and turn that off (advanced settings for your power plan) and see if it helps.

Setting was already set to never turn off hard disk's.

rodo said:
Noob suggestion but have a look in event log for errors

Checked the log and it turns out that there is an error and it said something about the NTFS structure being corrupt and i need to run the chkdsk utility, will try it out in a couple of minutes.