Free up disk space

55 Hoops

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Oct 18, 2012 12:56

I need to free up disk space so i can produce and burn DVD. To produce in MPEG-2, I have 10.3GB of FREE space, 221 GB USED, 3.0 REMAINNG with 00:40:49 available time and 52:00 minutes of video to be burned. I copied 12 GB of video to a external hard drive and deleted that video. My PC has 500GB of hard drive space that's divided into two sections. One of the sections, I think my C Drive has the 221 and the other (D Drive) I think has at least 100GB of free space. How do I switch to produce the video from D Drive? Do you have any other suggestions?
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55 Hoops

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Oct 18, 2012 14:23

You can copy the Video to the D Drive easy enough, but that will not solve the problem of needing the free space on the C drive for building the DVD. Powerdirector uses the same Temporary file space as Windows, that is not easy to change.

But if you move enough Video and Data from C to D that may free up enough space.
For burning a DVD you may be able to get by with about 20 GB of free space on the C drive.

It may be time to buy a new Hard Drive, and put your OS on the new drive.

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Bubba in TX

Senior Contributor Location: Central Texas Joined: Dec 12, 2009 21:32 Messages: 1332 Offline

Oct 18, 2012 23:02

Yes you need to free up a LOT of space on that C drive.......

You can put all your movies and pictures, PD projects, packed projects, and any other data on your D drive OR on external USB drive hard drives. I keep movies and pictures on external drives of 2 TB each. They are a lot cheaper now than when I got mine....

You can install a second 1 or 2 TB hard drive and put all your data there. Drive E...... I don't keep hardly anything on my C drive. I still have over 1 1/2 TB free space after several years with it now. Others... not so much....

I also now have 3 internal drives, (2 TB each) but I use my D drive for anything I am working on. It is my default drive for everything that you can set yourself in PD and all other software. I have no problems with that method and you shouldn't either. A 500 GB drive by today's standards is small but still do-able. 10 GB of free space is the same as none.... or actually worse than none.... You just need to do a little disc file management among your hard drives..... That is your immediate solution. Getting larger hard drives is the desired method. But in the mean time.....

Did I mention you need to move some stuff around to free up space on your C drive?

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James Dotson

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Oct 18, 2012 23:25

Have you run disc clean up lately? While doing that, assuming your system is in good shape, also clean up old restore points. That can often recover more than 30GB. __________________________________
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