Odd Vegas & QT Issue & Solution

I'm posting this in case I can spare someone else my headache.

In short, I was attempting to render a very short spot to an uncompressed MOV. The render would hang everytime without rendering a single frame (Vegas didn't crash - it simply sat still until I cancelled the render)

After uninstalling and reinstalling EVERYTHING related to production on my PC, on a whim I tried rendering to a different hard drive.

AND IT WORKED!

So, before you set about reinstalling things when a render breaks, try rendering to a different destination.

Question: can anyone explain why this issue arose in the first place? It seems strange to me.

Sean Robinson