I have a desktop that I use mostly for capturing video and editing it. Normally I capture 5 30-min. episodes, which average 1.31GB each, then edit them together, burn it to a DVD, and erase everything. Well, while capturing, my software tells me how many hours worth of video I have space for on the HDD. It should go back up after I erase all the videos, but it keeps going and staying down. So I go into My Computer and check the HDD. One (C:) says 33.1GB remain of 113GB. Another (D:) says 169Gb remain of 170GB.

So my first question is...why do I have C: and D:? And why is D: empty and how can I use it? I have a 360GB HDD and I'm only able to use 20% of it?

I would assume that you have a C: and D: either because there are two physical drives in there, or you have one drive partitioned into to volumes.

either way you should be able to use the space on D: - both for those temporary files, and for storing other files permanently.

the trick is to find out where your video program has its temporary file settings and tell it to store those files on D:

Hmm....is there a way to look that up? Maybe I'll just have to play around with it.

At least I can use it...thanks. :D