Pro-toolz playback problem

Hello there, how ya doin' guyz? Ok, this topic 'd rather be in a digidesign forum but this place is so kind of versatile so...So, here is the problem:
During playback in pro-tools 5 (with 32 tracks update), around the middle of the song, the playback sudddenly stops and then this message appears:
"error -9073:disk may be too slow or too fragmented". So I made a reinitialisation, also defragmented,but the session always stop at the same location,and of course this prob also happens in other sessions.Some friend o' mine told me that partitioning HD is a solution so pro-tools has faster access to datas and audio files...
So,did you guys experience this situation?Thanxxx 4 feedback;Peace.
p.s.n mac os 9

Do you use a separate hard drive to record on? Protools doesn't like to record on the same drive that is running the program. So, get yourself a 2nd hard drive if you don't already have one. Internal or firewire will work good as long as it's a 7200rpm or better. I use a firewire 7200rpm/40mb/s+. No problems.
Peace

I agree with slider. If you're not using a laptop, a second HD just for audio is the best option. You can buy a pretty fast HD for about $100 now.
Your other option is partitioning your HD, but you'll only gain a little trackcount, and you'll have to backup your complete system to do it anyway.
The best harddisks for audio are Seagate barracuda and Western Digital Caviar. They're a bit faster than most harddisks, and make a lot less noise.

Slider,ieism, Thanx a lot , sounds like the ultimate solution to me;Indeed, I use the mac internal drive,+ it is a 5700 rpm...but, by the way, how **** up I am, I forgot to say that it's Protools LE... just a little last confirmation?
I mean, I've been living without a protools for maybe 1 year cause of this...1ce again you guys serioulsly rock (french **** frog tryin 2 speak slang and ebonix, Holla)

Yeah, man, this is really bad news. Running rich media (live audio/video) through the drive that contains the system/OS software is a no-no. I had to learn the hard way when I had a huge crash. This causes what are known as 'bad blocks', which cannot be defragged, and are sections of the disk that become unuseable until the drive is cleaned out and reformatted. Get another drive, and always run sessions off the second drive. It can be internal, doesn't matter, but you need an internal or external separate drive.

Also, there may now be a particular string of data in that session that is
dammaged, and that's why that error keeps happening. If you get it after the new drive, just go in with the scrub tool, and scroll over every region individually at the f-up point. Chances are, you will find one tiny spot on on region/track that is damaged, and may be only a sample or two in length.
Then you can cut that part out, duplicate a section of the region from just before the problem area, then consolidate, making a new audio region.
That solves it for me when I have a glitchy area.