BluRay Image Caused Drive Problem?

jrazz wrote on 9/16/2007, 11:39 AM
I was encoding from the timeline last night to a bluray disc image. The C drive went through almost all of its space and I kept getting low space notices (First time I have ever had it get that low). I deleted temp files and stopped the encode (it was at the compiling stage). I then deleted the temp vegas files and now the C drive has over 30 gigs of free space. The drive I chose for the image to be burned to had over 450gigs of free space.

Now, I am unable to copy anything to that drive as it says that the drive is full and asks me to run the drive cleanup. It shows in explorer that it has over 450 worth of free space, but somehow Windows thinks it is full. I can see all the hidden folders and nothing is in them. I even deleted the folder that was to contain the image (which was empty) and it had no effect. I am currently removing the contents from the drive and am going to do a clean format if necessary. It would see though that if windows sees it as having a ton of free space, why then does Windows think I need to run disk cleanup to free up space that is already free? I can copy and paste and save to my other external drives. Any ideas?

j razz

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Kennymusicman wrote on 9/16/2007, 12:44 PM
Sometimes it stores items such as system restore and other contents on a drive, including rollback capabilities, that are not seen by you as the user.
Even recycle bin can use cross-drives for storing stuff and that can get a little £entertaining".

Sometimes, also the master table for the drive can get messed up through something like you describe. A format will sort it out simply. Sometimes defrag will help. Sometimes a diskcheck on reboot will help.

It's the sort of thing that happens rarely, but is confusing when it does happen as it does not seem to make any sense.

HTH somewhere

Ken
teaktart wrote on 9/16/2007, 1:57 PM
Would "System Restore" possibly bring it all back to where you were before the Bluray image burn?

If that would do the trick sure would be a lot easier than a re-format...

For future reference would you advise setting up a 'temp' file on another drive with lots of space? (Presuming the default is on C: drive which we all want to keep as streamlined as possible...?)

Eileen
Kennymusicman wrote on 9/16/2007, 2:09 PM
With regard to system restore- possibly, but it depends on when the snapshot was taken, as it could "restore" more than you want. So I don't know for sure...Try a defrag first. (can take ages if you have a large drive - so do it overnight or something)

Trying to think (been a while) what method I used in end.

As for other drive - you always want to use another drive seperate to the OS disc. It gives you a performance boost, as it's not reading/writing the same disc during video and OS calls.

I think the best method is 1 for OS, 1 for reading, and 1 for rendering (3 discs effectively - and partitions are not the same as discs for those who wonder).

Another benefit about seperate drives is data safety - you can lose the OS, and not lose any of your video.
I have:
1 disc for OS
1 disc for Audio
1 disc for temp
1 disc for reading
1 disc backup
2 external discs for further backup

I have not entered the BluRay game yet - so another user on here would be better at any particular quirks that may be introduced with it.

Ken