Problem storing video files on 2nd hard drive

aalore · 04-10-2007

Hello All, I have recently purchased and had a 500 gb seagate hard drive installed on my computer. The main reason for purchasing it was to put my video files, etc. on it. However, the video files that I have moved over to that hard drive whenener I try to play them they stutter and freeze and you can't watch any of them on the added hard drive. So, I partitioned a part of the drive thinking that might help and it didn't. So, I just need to find out why my movie files, etc. won't play correctly on my second hard drive? Thanks all.

*CDan* · 04-10-2007

Check to see if UDMA is set and functioning on the drive.

aalore · 04-10-2007

that seems to be set any other ideas why this is happening?

*CDan* · 04-10-2007

It should work just fine. Perhaps if you provide some details about your system configuration. Also perhaps a disc benchmark on the drive could shed some light.
Anything that measures hard drive speeds.

_chef_ · 04-10-2007

Is it on PATA or SATA?

In case of PATA, check the connection/cable and UDMA mode.
In case of SATA check the cable/connection and SATA mode setup.

aalore · 05-10-2007

Ok thanks all... I did do the disc benchmark and saw a big difference in the hard drive speeds. My storage hard drive had a avg. speed of 2.0mb/s, so thats why its been stuttering and freezing while playing video. Are there ways to make it run faster?

aalore · 05-10-2007

Ok I just realized that my second hard drive is in pio mode... as was stated above.. how do I go about changing this?

maicod · 05-10-2007

if its an IDE drive then : do you use a 80-wire IDE cable ?

I dont think so reading above but if its on USB (external): out of luck (usb 2.0 has its limits)

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aalore · 05-10-2007

ok i will go and verify the cable... and its internal

*DrageMester* · 05-10-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by aalore

Ok I just realized that my second hard drive is in pio mode... as was stated above.. how do I go about changing this?

In addition to checking the cable as suggested above, you might also want to read this thread:

Troubleshooting: Enabling/Checking DMA in Windows Vista, XP, 2000, Me, 9x

and also this article:

DMA reverts to PIO

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