Dropping frames when capturing tape to external hard drive. Sony Vegas Movie Maker 9

Here is my issue. I recently had my pc fixed from a virus and the system works great. However, when I am trying to capture video from a DV tape on my Sony HC62 to my external hard drive I am dropping frames like crazy. I have a brand new firewire IEEE 1394 transfer cord and it's still dropping. I checked to make sure my IRQ was not being shared by another card like a sound card or graphics driver. I also defragmented the hard drive and it's still doing it. I don't know what to do now. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Re: Dropping frames when capturing tape to external hard drive. Sony Vegas Movie Mak

any chance you can capture to an internal drive 1st, then transfer to your external drive when it's complete?