leif
May 28th, 2009, 05:44 PM
Lately, many of my tivo files are giving me the following error when I attempt to output them as an mpeg using videoredo:
thread:invalid file format from external reader
If I try a quickstream fix I also get the same error. It appears somethings wrong with the tivo files themselves because if I try playing them with WMP, the tivo files stop playing in the same place the errors occur during transcoding. Do I have a failing hardrive? How can I diagnose harddrive? I've also been noticing winrar files I've been downloading onto this harddrive have been failing to extract. I have two harddrives in my computer. The one in question is a 750gb drive I have set as one mass partition to store media. It is full of stuff right now and has been for a long time. Might it be suffering from defragmentation since for sometime now I've been keeping hardrive full and erasing a little at a time before quickly filling up the empty space with new data. My understanding is defrag can't be done unless there is lots of empty space. I'm using vista which is set to auto defrag but I can't seem to get it to show me a chart so I can see severity of fragmentation like XP.Will it help to go into disk managment and apply error checking at system startup and put checks beside the two options-
-automatically fix file system errors
-scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors
thread:invalid file format from external reader
If I try a quickstream fix I also get the same error. It appears somethings wrong with the tivo files themselves because if I try playing them with WMP, the tivo files stop playing in the same place the errors occur during transcoding. Do I have a failing hardrive? How can I diagnose harddrive? I've also been noticing winrar files I've been downloading onto this harddrive have been failing to extract. I have two harddrives in my computer. The one in question is a 750gb drive I have set as one mass partition to store media. It is full of stuff right now and has been for a long time. Might it be suffering from defragmentation since for sometime now I've been keeping hardrive full and erasing a little at a time before quickly filling up the empty space with new data. My understanding is defrag can't be done unless there is lots of empty space. I'm using vista which is set to auto defrag but I can't seem to get it to show me a chart so I can see severity of fragmentation like XP.Will it help to go into disk managment and apply error checking at system startup and put checks beside the two options-
-automatically fix file system errors
-scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors