Video Capturing Problem

[JJMc]

I just bought a new Western Digital 250 GB external hard drive to replace my old 80 GB drive for capturing video. I set it up and it mounted fine, I followed the instructions.

 

I have Final Cut Express on my laptop, which is a PowerBook G4 (512 MB RAM). It is an old version of FCE, almost three years old. I go to start a capture using 'Capture Now' and as soon as I hit capture, the whole system hangs on the big, black "allocating disk space" screen. I had it a connnected via FireWire, so I switched to USB, with the same result. I also tried using 'Capture Clip' and the video came up on the screen, albeit choppy as hell, but the capture failed.

 

I fired up my old 80 GB drive, which is just an internal drive in a case, and the capture started without a problem.

 

The question is, is my computer just too slow for this brand-new drive? Does it spin faster than an older one? Could it be because I'm running an old version of FCE (which I know is not the greatest anyway)? It seems to me that a drive is a drive, more or less.

 

Any thoughts are welcomed.

 

Thanks.

[In Credible]

Id try a newer version of the software, and then deal with possible hardware issues (since software is easier to steal than hardware obv).