Computer Hope
Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows Vista and 7 => Topic started by: eddybeard on February 11, 2010, 04:15:34 AM
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Hi folks
I have just lost about 4Gb of hard-drive space and I don't know why!
Just prior to this I had burned a DVD using Nero 7 Startsmart. The file copied where AVI & Nero recode files.
I'd burned them as Data files as nero wouldn't let me copy them 'as they were' 5 onto one 4.7G DVDR.
Being new to Nero (and computing generally) I am still finding out what it Will do. I realised from this that nero apparently recodes AVI files to normal dvd file to copy to a 4.7G disc. I started to copy one of these movies to a disc for a friend but wanted to watch another movie that was on my H/drive. The system crashed and I aborted the burn process. It was after watching my movie that I noticed I was about 4G down on free space. This is annoying as there is now only about 2G left on my C drive.
I've tried to find the offending data files but without success.
Can anyone give me any leads to regain my lost 4G of free space?
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I think you answered your own question.
Nero copies to the HDD before burning the DVD.
Since your computer crashed before the burn operation was complete, Nero did not have a chance to delete the intermediate files or ask you if you wanted to delete them.