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I was copying video files from my laptop hd to an external hd. Now, some, not all, of the files I have copied are choppy and fucked up. On BOTH hd's. I could maybe understand if it was only the files being played from the external, but it's both hd's and not all the files. I have no idea what's wrong. Anybody know where to start trying to fix this?

I was copying video files from my laptop hd to an external hd. Now, some, not all, of the files I have copied are choppy and fucked up. On BOTH hd's. I could maybe understand if it was only the files being played from the external, but it's both hd's and not all the files. I have no idea what's wrong. Anybody know where to start trying to fix this?

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So the damage is done?

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to an external hd.

So you're trying to stream over USB 2.0 what I assume are HD videos. Stop. Not only do hardware manufacturers not use high quality USB socket components and hardware but USB 2.0 is slow as fuck.

If they played fine on computer 1, copying them won't change the file integrity. I can pull up a dozen 1080p movies and play them at once and have no issues. But that's from either an SSD or a HDD and no t over USB, and SATA has a much higher throughput than USB.

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No, I'm not watching the files copied to the external. Im watching the originals on the laptop hd, they're doing the same thing.