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A few months ago I copied a lot of video files from my laptop to an external HDD, replaced my laptop HDD with an SSD and copied back those files from external HDD to my SSD.

Now some of the video files are corrupted. When I play those files at a specific time they stop playing and when I trying to close the video it freezes the computer until I shut down my computer.

The same thing happens when copying them.

Now when I copy new video files from the other HDD or flash drive after few days they are also corrupted.

I am using windows 7 and an old Dell latitude E6400 laptop.

I don't know what is the problem. I tried antivirus scanning but it also froze my computer. I updated all the drivers but the problem still exists.

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    How do you know this issue didn't exist before you transferred the files?
    – Ramhound
    Commented Mar 19, 2022 at 5:43
  • Please clarify your specific problem or provide additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it's hard to tell exactly what you're asking.
    – Community Bot
    Commented Mar 19, 2022 at 5:44
  • all the video files that were in my old laptop HDD was ok because they all copied and played fine but since I copied this files from my laptop to an external HDD and replace my laptop HDD with an SSD and copied them back they start corrupting, corrupted files are not copying from one disk to another during copying they freeze my computer
    – John
    Commented Mar 19, 2022 at 5:48
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    sounds like a possible failing SSD ... also a possible bad USB port
    – jsotola
    Commented Mar 19, 2022 at 6:10
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    what type of video file are they? some specific container/codec combos may be repairable: repairit.wondershare.com/video-repair/… filerepairtool.net/blog/repair-h264-mp4-video-file-mac makeuseof.com/tag/… etc... but check your disks first
    – Frank Thomas
    Commented Mar 19, 2022 at 7:26

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File corruption and a freezing antivirus program (that initially checks everyhting and loads from a lot of locations on the drive thereafter) suggest a broken drive.

Use smartmontools to create a log file of the health status of your drive and post it here.

To avoid writing on a already dammaged drive start a live linux from USB that contains smartmontools already (Gparted, Knoppix and others).

Find your device by running lsblk. Then run smartctl -a /dev/sda > mylogfile.txt with admin rights.

The letter "a" in "sda" represents the first drive. Adjust that letter according to what lsblk states.

Hint: You said you are only using Windows 7. Improper shutdown in dual-boot environment could also cause file corruption.

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