[Doogz]

Howdy X

It seems to me that your main problem is that your harddrive is too slow! 5400rpm just wont cut it for a system drive - let alone an audio drive - and from your spec list you only have one drive to do everything!. A song with lots of tracks and lots of edits can be hundreds of megs in size and the drive needs to spit out chunks of sound that could be located all over the drive in fractions of a second.

I reckon if you go out and get yourself a couple of decent 7200rpm drives (one for your system, one for your audio (at least get one for your audio)) all your problems will be solved ...

... well, at least the Pro Tools ones!

Doogz