Technical problem - DVD playback on computer

[HamsterDemocracy]

Hey guys,

I've had my computer a few months and it's fantastic. 300 GB hard drive, dual core processor, works like a charm.

However, last month or so I realized when I try to playback DVDs on the E Drive the playback is "choppy" - it doesn't flow smoothly. The drive seems to be fine and reads and writes CDs, it just gets a bit laggish when playing DVDs - similar to how it would be if you were trying to burn a CD while watching a DVD in the other drive.

Now, my D Drive works perfectly when I playback DVDs - it isn't choppy at all.

This happened on my last PC, too. I was wondering if the E drive (primary drive) is weaker than a DVD Burning drive such as the D drive, which seems to have more power.

Maybe I've used up too much space on the hard drive (I'm down to 90 GB) but everything else works perfectly and I can run many programs simultaneously without issues. Also when I play the DVD in the E drive it's not like the entire computer gets bogged down, everything works fine. It's almost as if the E Drive is just set wrong but it worked fine before.

Any ideas?

[Skeba]

the letters have got nothing to do with the drives themselves... it's only an assigned symbol to represent and access the actual hardware. and it could be set up wrong. Some drives could be bitchy if you put them in a slave slot and use have set it as a master from the jumpers or the other way around. But I'd think that it would make the drive not work all together rather than just fucking up dvd-play.

[HamsterDemocracy]

the letters have got nothing to do with the drives themselves... it's only an assigned symbol to represent and access the actual hardware. and it could be set up wrong. Some drives could be bitchy if you put them in a slave slot and use have set it as a master from the jumpers or the other way around. But I'd think that it would make the drive not work all together rather than just fucking up dvd-play.

I know...I could change the names if I wanted to as well...I'm just saying that to differentiate between the two, because one drive is CD/DVD burning (E Drive) and the other drive is specifically a DVD Burner and has LightScribe abilities...basically they're the same though, I just realized today the E drive can burn DVDs as well so there's not much of a difference.

[unoturbo]

I would think it more likely that whatever software you're using to playback the DVD is the problem. When I use media player it spacks out, but WinDVD is fine.

Oh, I just read it's fine when you use D: and the problem is only on E: Not to state the obvious but can't you just use D?