hardrive problems.

[Guest]

I have a new hardrive which when i download from my camcorder(mini dv sony trv33) it becomes all distorted and unwatchable.When i use my older smaller hardrive i can download film and edit however can sent back to the camcorder in dv-avi format because the hardrive not big enough now,hence the new bigger drive which distorts the film.

 

[jquiet]

You are saying that you have both drives in your computer and when you save
to one it is OK and when you save to the other it is not OK? Or are you
exchanging the hard drives? If you are changing hard drives then there is a
chance that whatever method you used to transfer your files from the small
drive to the larger one somehow corrupted some files.

Give us some more details on how you got here.

I have a new hardrive which when i download from my camcorder(mini dv sony

trv33) it becomes all distorted and unwatchable.When i use my older smaller
hardrive i can download film and edit however can sent back to the camcorder
in dv-avi format because the hardrive not big enough now,hence the new
bigger drive which distorts the film.

 

[Guest]

Re my last post
I use a firewire port to download film from my sony trv33 camcorder using the dv-avi format so after editing i can return it to the camcorder for the best possible quality
When i download to movie maker i sent the film to "my videos" a new folder i made up in the new hardrive,i have to change the film destination to my new drive as opposed to the old one
The film downloads but is distorted both picture and sound
If i download and choose the old drive as the destination for the film to end up it is fine
For your information this new drive is a western 160g which i was not able to format on my computer using windows xp home edition as i kept getting an error message saying format was not successfully completed.I therfore removed the hdd and a friend formatted it on his computer using windows xp pro edition,dont know if this makes any difference.

 

[jquiet]

It sounds like that drive is not working properly in your system. You need
to be able to format it. If you can't get past that then something is wrong.

The first thing I would check is if all the jumpers are correct on the hard
drives. If this is a newer computer and you are using the newer thin wire 80
wire ribbon cables I would set the jumpers on all drives to use cable select
and make sure that the original drive is at the end (master) position of the
ribbon cable connected to the first IDE channel (IDE0 or IDE1 depending on
whether they label them 0 and 1 or 1 and 2). To ensure more reliable burns a
CD/DVD writer should be at the end (master) position. It is also not ideal
to mix optical drives and hard drives. That kind of leaves you with with the
slave position of the channel 1 for the second drive. I have to say that I
violated those suggestions and don't seem to have problems. I like to make
hard drives masters where possible and I let the DVD burner be the slave on
the second channel. It might depend on your individual components.

If you are still using thicker wire 40 wire cables then you will have to set
the master and slave jumpers. Try to make the hard drives masters and the
CD(s) slaves. You can only have one of each on each cable.

Here is one reference site that looked good using google:
http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/if/ide/confPerformance.html

For background info:
http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/if/ide/confJumpering.html
http://www.storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/if/ide/confCS.html

In summary don't proceed until you can format that drive in your own system.

Among other things to check are that DMA is enabled in the BIOS and in
Device Manager on each channel of the IDE ATA/ATAPI controller.

Re my last post.
I use a firewire port to download film from my sony trv33 camcorder using

the dv-avi format so after editing i can return it to the camcorder for the
best possible quality.

When i download to movie maker i sent the film to "my videos" a new folder

i made up in the new hardrive,i have to change the film destination to my
new drive as opposed to the old one .

The film downloads but is distorted both picture and sound.
If i download and choose the old drive as the destination for the film to end up it is fine.
For your information this new drive is a western 160g which i was not able

to format on my computer using windows xp home edition as i kept getting an
error message saying format was not successfully completed.I therfore
removed the hdd and a friend formatted it on his computer using windows xp
pro edition,dont know if this makes any difference.