video playing slow when copied to external hard drive

[Guppy]

Hi,

I've been putting some old home movies from vhs tapes onto my pc and then converting the films to .avi so I can put them onto dvd's. There were so many that I had to get an external hard drive in the end as I was rapidly running out of space. The problem I have now though is that when I copy over a file with these home videos on, onto the external hard drive, they play in slow motion in media player but the audio is fine. It's not a problem when I play a file from my c drive only from the external hard drive. I have already had the problem of not being able to put more than about 40 mins worth of a video onto the hard drive because of the type of file system so I found out that I had to convert from FAT to NTFS which I have done.

The hard drive is a western digital 1TB and I have windows vista.

Does anybody have any advice?

Thanks.

[mvanwey]

Still there?

I had a similar problem, WD Mybook USB connected to a machine running XP SP3.
I can stream over the network from the machine's internal drives, but not the external.
Gotta be a bottle neck w/ the USB. Also, those external drives usually are only 5400RPM, w/ small cache.

Pick up a new SATA internal, I just got a 1TB WD Caviar black SATA for $89 fron newegg.com.

I'm using the USB for backups (not for long, it will fill up quick).