Help please. Playback hesitations/glitches making recording impossible

I am having a serious problem that has just appeared. I need to fix it asap. I'm right in the middle of several sessions and recording/playback has become impossible.
- This afternoon, at a session, the problem began... there were serious playback glitches causing noises and hestitations. It was impossible to record. I did a workaround by creating a mixdown of the tune, creating a new session and then having the person play over the one mixdown track. This worked but I think it was just luck...
- However...now, I am not able to do anything at all without this happening. I can't even playback. It seems to be getting worse.
- After pressing 'play' there is a hestitation before playback, then 2-3 seconds of playback then glitches and noise, then 2-3 more seconds of music, then glitches.
- Nothing has changed.
- Note: I have done several full band sessions recently, including one yesterday, with absoutely no problem whatsoever. The problem just appeared.
- Suggestions please! What would cause this?
Thanks!

I do not generally defrag audio files, as there seems to be conflicting opinion. However, just doing a bit of new reading, it seems that maybe I should start defraging. I can see how that could cause the symptom I was having. The drive getting full and the playback accessing so many small files.
One interesting thing that I just read was that the act of transfering the files from one drive to another using Windows Explorer automatically defrags the files. When I copied my files over to another drive, my session played fine, now being contiguous files. I should try copying the files back to the original drive and see if the drive, and session, perform better. Not a bad idea.

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