Having a nightmare

[The Mucky Puppy]

So I wonder if anyone can help I have just started to capture a project that I shot in 24p on the F5 setting on a DVX100a I have a PC with Premiere Pro1.0, 1GB RAM a Pentium 4 3.0ghz processor and an Nvidia fx5200 video card after capturing about an hour or so onto a western digital my book essential 500gb hard drive the capture rate slows down steadily until it is unbearably long 4-6 mins and longer to get the file (files are about 30 secs to a minute long)to write on the harddrive please please can anyone help I have never had this problem before shooting other brands of camera or is it my system

Thanks for your help in Advance

The Mucky Puppy

 

[MasterP]

Just to get this straight...
You are capturing footage from your camera directly to the external disk - right?

 

[The Mucky Puppy]

Yeah thats correct through the computer using premiere pro

 

[Can Scanner]

How much space do you have free on your HDD? Is it defragged?
Have you tried a good ol' system restart?

 

[The Mucky Puppy]

I have 435 GB left out of 466GB and have done a restart ono the system the file format on the HDD is NTFS

 

[Can Scanner]

Can you capture to a different drive without trouble?
Do you have an automatic anti-virus scan enabled? I've noticed slow performance when a virus scan is running in the background.