dvd burn vs HD space

[Guest]

1 quick q'.....if im wanting to burn 4.6 gig....how much available hard drive
space do i need ?

i have 10gig....but i keep getting a message "not enough space on hard drive"
when i try to burn.

anyone?

 

[Alvin Brown]

Hello

Pretty simple math to me, if you have a 10gig drive and your needing
4.6gigs which is about half your drive, which is 5.0gig, then you don't
have the space, you have to take into considration your OS and
what data that you have on the drive. First thing you do, find out
how much you do have on oyur drive,.

Al

 

[Quaoar]

1 quick q'.....if im wanting to burn 4.6 gig....how much available
hard drive space do i need ?

i have 10gig....but i keep getting a message "not enough space on
hard drive" when i try to burn.

anyone?

Windows itself needs 400-500MB, fragmentation can make the remaining
free space non-contiguous and difficult to access for any burning. A
new drive is very inexpensive.

Q

 

[Graham Hughes]

bear in mind also that a dvd only holds 4.38gb of info.