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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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  1. dont use a USB hub.

  2. increase the VLC file cache (buffer) setting.

  3. if it's a fat based file system on the hard drive is it almost full? if so, it might need to be defragmented.

  4. md5sum the two files to make sure that they are indeed the same to rule out very slim chance that it's a hardware corruption issue.

  5. if all of these don't help, you may want to try a faster spinning external hard drive or changing the interface that the hard drive is using if that's an option.

placing my money on #2 fixing it.