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WinXP tells me the drive is full...
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Name: PC Freak
Date: January 5, 2004 at 18:52:45 Pacific
Subject: WinXP tells me the drive is full...OS: Windows XP Home SP1CPU/Ram: Athlon XP 2500+/256MB DDR |
Comment: ...when it's not. I'm trying to capture video from a digital video camera to burn to VCDs using Windows Movie Maker 2 in Windows XP. I was planning to use the auto mode, where it'll capture the whole tape at once, and then I can split the clips later. Problem is, every time it gets to roughly 600MB recorded, it stops and claims that it couldn't continue because the drive was full. However, the drive I was recording to (D:\) still has 4GB left free! After it says that, I'm left with a file that won't even load into Windows Movie Maker because it says it's not indexed... >_< Any ideas why it's doing this?
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Response Number 4
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Name: Oil_Tan
Date: January 5, 2004 at 20:32:28 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)VCD has a 600 mb limit, maybe 650. disc size when vcd technology was released. Also if program decides to complete a file would OVERfill a drive, it will stop progress.
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Response Number 5
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Name: PC Freak
Date: January 5, 2004 at 20:49:26 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Yeah, but this is long before I've done anything even having to do with getting it ready to put on VCD, this is just the recording process...
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Response Number 6
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Name: setishock
Date: January 5, 2004 at 22:20:57 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Part of what you have left free is being used by the pagefile formally known as swapper. For all intense purposes, you're out of drive space. If you make the pagefile smaller you're gonna have problems running large programs such as vid editors. They make good use of the swapper file. If you turn it off, well then good luck getting your computer to boot back up.
Time to play Susy Homemaker on them drives. Save what you want to keep off on what ever you use as your back up medium. And flush the rest. As for me I've given serious thought of getting a tape drive to back up my system on.
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Response Number 7
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Name: SVG
Date: January 5, 2004 at 22:59:24 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)...if Movie Maker program has an 'undo' function, that may be more than doubling the size of stuff you're working on. Can UNDO be turned off?
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Response Number 8
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Name: PC Freak
Date: January 5, 2004 at 23:54:53 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Yeah it does, but there's no option for it to be turned off... I do have a lot of stuff on D:\ that I probably don't need, junk that's been building up for years, which I can probably delete, but it'll take a really long time to sort through it all... Don't really have any other choice, though...
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Response Number 9
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Name: setishock
Date: January 6, 2004 at 10:42:52 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I totally agree with it takes a while to sort through all the junk.
BUT
Having a computer is like having cats
If you don't clean out the litter box once in a while
It begins to stink...
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