this morning i was downloading a video file from limewire, there was 1 user seeding me downloading at the speed of 1k.

while the file is downloading i took a look at the incomplete file folder, and i was shocked:

i noticed there were two copies of the same video i was downloading.

there was only 1 task in the list, however limewire somehow created another copy of the exact same thing.

worst, i soon noticed my pc was lagging really bad, i played a video from youtube.com, it was lagging, my whole system was lagging abit.

when i cancelled the video download the pc stop lagging.

i'm worried that limewire has damage my hardrive by creating 2 copies of the same video, and then writing data to BOTH OF THE FILES as it is downloading.

this will greatly stresses the harddrive as data is being written to 2 files at the same time, i checked the two UNFINISHED video files and both of them are 1.3mb, yes they both have the same size!

which means limewire was writing data to both files as it is downloading, perhaps this is also why my pc is lagging; because my hardrive has already been damage by this software.

imagine downlaoding a file from bittorent, but bittorent creates 2 copies of the file, as the file is downloading, bittorent writes data to both of the files, the hd would spin inconsistantly trying to keep up, resulting in hardware damage.

so can anyone explain to me what happened with limewire?

why were there two copies of the file with the same name adn size, when i only have 1 task running?

and how badly is my hd damage?

thanks for the help.

now this greatly worries me,

(edited only to ease in reading!)