trickymc

Howdy,

I just bought and installed a Seagate 160 GB Ultra ATA/100, 7200RPm, 8MB as a storage device for very large video file created from a MiniDV camcorder. As some of you know these files are very large (1hr video = 13 GB), so my old 40 Gig (C) needed a little back up.

After installation, transfering files to the new (F) drive went well, but when i attempted to playback these files on WMP the files had extremely choppy video and audio. I also noticed that the CPU Usage shot up to 100% for the duration of the choppy playback on the new HD. I can transfer the same file to the old C drive and play it back smoothly and with a Cpu Usage of around 20%. The new (F) drive will play back smaller video fine, but not the larger video files (the reason i bought it in the first place).

Im on a Dell Dim4600
2.66 GHz Pent 4
768 MB DDR

Does this sound normal or is there something i can do to get me new hard drive to playback smoothly? Thank you!