Hard drive nightmare I need help!!!!!!!!!!!

jubeisan wrote on 12/19/2002, 9:46 PM

I recently purchased two new (120 7200) drives that are giving me nightmares. I get this error message saying. An error occurred while creating the media file name.avi.
An error occured writing the file. Make sure you have write access to the file/folder and that there is enough free space.

I had a proble where I ripped a track form a cd to my new dedicated audio drive and the track would be distorted when I played it on a vegas video audio track. It took me a few days then I realized that the same song plays back just fine when I ripped it to the old drive (not my c drive. I can only render files uncompressed to this drive and I am out of space for a project that I am doing.

Any advice will be greatly appriciated.


1022 gig of ram
1*80 gig system drive
3* 120 gig 7200 rpm
asus ti 4200 video card
tyan 760 mpx mobo
amd mp 2000+
cdr drive
pioneer ao4 drive
vv 3.0c (build138)

Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 12/19/2002, 10:02 PM
Sounds like you didn't enable DMA for the drives.
Go to:
Control panel/system/hardware and open the Primary and Secondary IDE controllers. In each, you can enable DMA or instruct for Use DMA whenever possible and this will most likely clear your trouble. The other alternative is that you have a problem with resources hogging your IDE buss.
jubeisan wrote on 12/22/2002, 11:17 AM


Thanks spot I still have the problem but thanks for your help spoy.
Tyler.Durden wrote on 12/22/2002, 11:33 AM
Hi jubeisan,

Which operating system?

How is each drive formatted?

What are you using to rip the audio?

Ripping to the new drive has the problem but the old drive doesn't?

Can you move other files from the old drive to the new and make room to rip onto the old drive? Not a total solution, but might get your job done.



HTH, MPH
BillyBoy wrote on 12/22/2002, 11:37 AM
Ahh... Windows! Check to see if Windows marked the file read only*. If it did, then undo and you probably will get rid of the can't write problem.

Go to Windows Explorer, right click on the file/folder in question, slect properties and see.

*This is another buggy Windows thing. Sometimes for no reason files get marked read only or there are other file access issues. For example dumb Windows on my main PC thinks are are two users, while there is only me. So frequently when I try to open either a Word document or Excel spreadsheet stupid Windows will say such and such file is "in use" by that "other" user that don't exist. Only Micro$oft gets away with that kind of sloppy programming. LOL!

JJKizak wrote on 12/22/2002, 7:51 PM
Time to do checki checki. Does your motherboard support ATA-100 or ATA 133?
Do you have the latest drivers and maybe the bios to support these drives?
Are the new drives formatted with the same file allocation as the old drive, 512?
How did you change the Operating system, remove and re-install? You may have Fat 32
on some drives and NTFS on the others. Mixed file allocations do not work.
How is the CMOS detecting your drives---Automatic????

James J. Kizak