WHATS HAPPENED TO MY PC

[FANDANGO]

All was well until yesterday.
Now every time I try to create a video file I keep getting a message " you are running out of disc space on drive 'D'" which is strange because system info shows i've still got 9 GB left. The D DRIVE is a 27GB maxtor which I use only for capturing/creating video files to. I defrag often, infact only three days ago after I deleted a number of files from this drive.
Incidently, when I'm creating a video file using MS PRO 5.2ve the info box that shows time elapsed etc.is showing some strange estimated values. For instance a video file I know would be around 600MB size is showing as being estimated to be about 7 GB when completed. Before completing however the video stops rendering and I'm presented with a window stating there's been a file writing error. Everything has worked fine for months upto this, I have not changed any settings that I'm aware of the only thing I've done is delete some video files.
What's causing my computer to wrongly inform of limited disc space when infact there's loads.
For reference PC spec is;
Pentium 2 400mhz BX chipset.
128mb Ram,10GB and 27GB HDD,
Marox Marvel G400TV, MSPRO 5.2ve EDITING SOFTWARE
WINDOWS 98

HELP PLEASE?
Fandango

[Eric VanHeest]

If you end up terminating large files before Windows finishes writing them, you can end up with a lot of "used" space on your drive that isn't actually assigned to any files. Scandisk (or something better) will usually clear up that kind of problem (although, if I recall, the drive doesn't show the space as "free" if this is the issue, so it may not be related).

I have also often seen programs get extremely confused about available drive space when the actual space remaining is close to a 2 GB boundary (reporting negative space free, etc). Most newer programs aren't this brain-dead, but some still continue to amaze me.

[evil twin]

hey,

maybe you need to try running diskcleanup and then defrag

[Fred H]

Check this for some ideas: http://www.price98.freeserve.co.uk/page7.htm
(Norton Editor ?)

[Grigory]

Hi,
Sometimes the FAT32 table becomes damaged and reports incorrectly the free space. You can try to write on disk, but the system then reports not enough free space. The easiest way to check this is to run scandisk. In most cases it repairs the problem.

Another consideration.
If your output file for whatever reason is expected to be bigger than 2 GB, most editors stop rendering at 2GB limit and report disk writing problem, not enough space, write-protected media, etc., depending on what reason was assumed the best by the developers
The actual problem is 2GB avi size limit. The application tries to write to avi file new data, but suddenly detects the the file length is negative (when the size goes over 2GB) ! The error message appears, which has nothing to do with the reality.

As for the reason of huge projected file size, you can check the compressor. It may happen that it was substituted by RGB for some reason.

Grigory

[KRSESQ]

Before you go to bed, set your scandisk options for "Thorough" and "Automatically fix errors" and let it run overnight. This will identify and mark bad clusters which may have formed on the drive in question.

[Michel Carleer]

Another idea: Are you by any chance running Norton Recycle Bin Protection (don't remember the exact name)? I have seen on the net some people who had free disk space problems with it.
Michka

[Brian Ellis]

Fandango

I'd make a bet that your problem is not on drive D, at all, but C:. When you are trying to do any video work, heavy use is made of a temporary file which is set, by default, on C:. This is the message you will receive if this temp file fills up.

The best thing is to configure your system so that the D: file is used for temp, preferably a second partition.

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Brian (the terrible)

PS Also delete the contents of all your temp directories.

[This message has been edited by Brian Ellis (edited 13 September 2000).]

[FANDANGO]

UPDATE

OK I ran scandisk, then defragged but no change.I couldn't even capture footage without windows freezing up on me.So I decided to uninstall / re-install MS Pro and video tools including any updates I downloaded from the respective sites and now everything seems to be working OK, infact perhaps just that bit quicker.
Many thanks for the replies to my post

FANDANGO

[Rick6612]

Hi FANDANGO,

My guess is that your Create Video - Options got changed so that you are now trying to create a new .avi file in Uncompressed format, instead of Matrox MJPEG compressed format.

MSP 5.2 has a bad habit of randomly changing the settings for creating videos. Everyone else who has been replying to you is probably using MSP 6.0 now, and MSP 6.0 doesn't have this problem any more.

Rick

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