I/O error when playing DV-avi files
 

I recently got a new 250GB Seagate harddrive.
I have copied my DV-avi files from my old harddrive to the new one.

The problem is:

When I try to play those avi files from the new harddrive, with win media player 10, or any other program, I get a I/O error message.

When I check the system information... all I/O are OK, and there seems not to be any conflicts at all.

To play mpeg or wma files is no problem.

The original avi files on my old drive are all fine.

My system:
Windows XP Pro (SP1)
120GB Western Digital (partitioned in C+D drive, D is for video and documents so far)
250GB Seagate for video only
Abit BG7 motherboard
1GB ram
Intel P4 2.4GHz CPU

NLE: Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5


Anyone experienced this before?

Can you copy these files to another harddisk? If so, can you play them from that location?

The original files are okay. (on my old hard drive)
The copied files on my new drive can not be played at all.

But when I copy the avi files from the new hard drive back to the old hard drive, they play fine.

So, I'm thinking this must be a problem with the new Seagate hard drive, and not the avi files.

Have you run ScanDisk on the new drive? You can also try Seagate's diagnostic tool: http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools.

Thanks for the tip Christopher.. will try that.

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UPDATE:
Tried both scandisk and the Seagate tools. Still doesn't work.

This doesn't sound good, I'm thinking the following:

- bad cable

- another device on the same cable that is messing some things up (I've had this happen!)

- the drive is running in the wrong mode (formatted in UDMA running in PIO or the other way around)

- the drive is bad

Rob:

I have both the harddrives on the same IDE cable. On the other cable, I have my 2 optical drives. I'll try to switch cables and see what happens.

Do you know how I can check the UDMA/PIO? I'm looking in the Device manager, but I can't see anything about the UDMA or PIO?

The Device Manager reports that the drive is "working properly".

I would disconnect the optical drives and move the non boot harddisk to the
second cable, see what that does (as a test).

In regards to (U)DMA & PIO, first check the BIOS information screen (it usually
is the second screen that lists the basic info in a table with IRQ assignements
below that) to see what this says.

In Windows you can check the mode your disks are running under by going to:

1. Open your Control Panel

2. Go to system

3. Go to the hardware tab and click on device manager

4. Expand the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers section

5. Double-click Primary IDE channel and go to the advanced settings tab

6. The currently used mode (for both devices if you have two attached to this cable/port) is under current transfer mode.

7. Repeat 5 & 6 for the Secondary IDE channel

Moved the problem harddrive to the secondary IDE cable, and disconnected the optical drives.
Didn't work. No change at all.

BIOS settings for the UDMA and PIO:
Onboard IDE-1 and IDE-2:
Master and Slave PIO and Ultra DMA are all set to AUTO.

Device Manager:
I do not see any "advanced settings" tab for the IDE/ATAPI.
I see "General", "Driver" and "Resources".
Under the "Resources" it says No Conflicts.
This is for both the primary and secondary IDE channel.

I'm wondering can this be a windows XP or a software problem?
Some kind of conflict? Because as I said in my original post, the only trouble is with the DV-AVI files.

Should I try to reinstall XP?
(Have lots of software, so I would avoid this if possible)

If you don't have that tab it sounds like something is wrong with your Windows
installation or you did not install your motherboard/chipset driver!

Make sure the latter is installed. You should definitely see that advanced
settings tab. If you look through the properties tabs under Disk Drives ->
[your harddisk] do you see anything for (U)DMA there?

The chipset driver is installed.

Under the "Drives" in Device manager... I have the following tabs:
General, Policies, Volumes, Driver.
Nothing at all about UDMA.

So I guess this means that it is the windows itself creating this problem.

Thank you for your help.


EDIT:
I just reinstalled the chipset driver. No change.

What model is the drive?Are both the original and new one formatted as NTFS?Did you have any problem when originally installing the drive?

Are you sure you're checking "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers section" and not the drives section in hardware manager? It sounds like you are checking the drives section.

Glenn:
Yes, I checked the IDE ATA/ATAPI section. (and also the drive section to be sure)

Both drives are NTFS

Jack:
The drive is Seagate ST3250823A (250GB 7200rpm)

I have totally forgot to tell you, (sorry) but I had problems formatting the drive originally... got to 100% and then I got an error message saying "could not complete the formatting". I had to take the drive back to the shop to have them format it for me.
I'm gonna contact them tomorrow.

But if it was the formatting that caused this, wouldn't I have problems with all kind of file types then?
Now, I have only problem with DV-avi files.
The file size does not mather! I have tried with both 1MB files and 6GB files...

The reason I asked about problems on installation is I have seen this create weird things.I suggest you get everything of the drive and start fresh.Put it on the secondary IDE as master using an 80pin not a 40 pin cable, with the opticals out of the system.Then follow the manufactures install guide and try again ,clear the partion and start a new one and reformat again as manufacture install.