Freezes

[jason69uk]

If i got bad sectors on a drive and its affecting playback of a movie, if u cut the moviue to another drive will it play ok then?

Also i have a lot of freezes on this pc where the whole pc just locks up totally..so badly i cant move the mouse or touch the keyboard etc. so it reults in me having to reset it. Can this cause damage to playback of movies on the hard drive and permanantly damage them? I am using an IDE here though and not an external..

Thanks 4 help

[bazooka]

The lockups could be a video driver issue or the bios may need updated.

[jason69uk]

thanks very much man but could turning the pc off like that also mess up films which cant be sorted out?? i would have to download them again?

what are all the maintenance tools id need to keep the films the way they r without getting damaged??

[Capmaster]

If the PC is writing to a file at the moment it locks up, you betcha it can corrupt the file. If it's merely reading it, then no, it probably won't.

You need to run some HD repair/diagnostic tools like Norton Disk Doctor or something similar.

[jason69uk]

Hi,

How easily though isit for data to get corrupted?

What would be all the causes of it??

[Nelson37]

Sunspots. A 5-lb magnet placed on the PC. A light bulb burning out. Hitting the case with a hammer. CIA death-ray experiments. Also, of course, no physically determinable cause.

As for copying the files, it depends. Copy will try many times to read any corrupt sectors, this may work. Do it soon.

As for the freezes, see paragraph 1.