New HardDrive DV Capture/Playback Problems

[scottrwn98]

I have a friend who has just bought a DELL 2.0 MHz, 256 Meg of RAM and a 60gig hard drive. The FireWire is built in the computer. He has captured and played back DV just fine. He recently bought a new 120gig 7200 harddrive (both NTFS) and he cannot capture nor play back. Capture drops frames, and play back skips really bad. What is going on?

[The village idiot]

I don't have a concrete answer, but here is what I would check.

Assuming that this is an internal hard drive, I would check to see that the jumpers for master/slave are correct on the back of the drive. If the drive cam with any utility software, I would check to see that it is running at ATA100 or ata133. Also check to make sure that DMA is enabled for that drive. goto controlpanel --> system --> hardware -->device manager --> IDE ATA/Atapi controllers -->rightclick and select properties for that controller. Then just make sure that DMA is enabled for the drive. reboot and check again to make sure it was allowed.

If all of that is OK, then there must be something slowing the data down. Maybe a slow CD-rom on the same cable, or a bad IDE cable. HArd to say without the machine in front of me.