I have a Dell Inspiring 5150. Must be about 7 years old now but worked fine until recently. I had a problem in Hoster with a time delay in the song cuing up after pressing play. Then last week I was doing some video copying to hard drive C. with Roxio DVD software which has a drive test function, on pressing this it showed drive C. as dropping 269 frames out of 400 but the external drive o.k. I then downloaded a drive test program from the Internet which showed the drive as only 40% and recommended changing.
I have now fitted a new drive 160GB in place of the old 60Gb.
Since doing this, the few hours testing I have done, seems to have cured the cue time delay in Hoster. I always had all my Music .KMA and video files on an external drive. but as the program runs from the C. drive I think it was causing these problems.
So what I am suggesting is get your internal drive checked. This could be a Warning of failure.
I had previously used Microsoft Chkdisk and defraged drive but that didn't
pick up the problem.
Changing the internal drive was quite easy I got a replacement internal drive from
www.drivemylaptop.co.uk
They supply the drive with a docking caddy and a CD with "Acronis Migrate Easy" software. You just activate the program plug in the external caddy and choose Disk clone, when it's finished just swap the old drive for the new one switch on. In my case I had to press F2 and highlight boot from Hard drive & save. It then started up with no problems exactly as before but with a bigger hard drive.
In the event of failure to this new hard drive you can always put the old one back in to get you going again, a bit like system restore.
Roy.