Pro Tools LE error (-9073)

[3RD NAIL RISING]

I have had no problems with my protools until one day this message came up.

"DAE can't get from drive fast enough. Your drive may be to slow or fragmented or a firewire drive could be having trouble to the extra firewire bandwidth or CPU load."

When i start recording there is a big crack noise (like having your speaker volume up and unplugging the cables) and when i stop the recording at the end the same crack noise. I have noticed if there is a little noise at the begining of the recording the error message does not come up.

I have raised and lowered the buffer and it still does this. I do not have firewire, but being this frustrated when I am in a session, I am willing to possibly get it. Help me with what i can do to fix this.

Is there a setting that i need to change?

[JMS40]

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[felix822]

I would suggest buying a firewire external drive.