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mfuzzylab

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15. December 2005 @ 17:43

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This might be a stupid question, but I beleive that I have run out of room on my hard drive to copy DVD video files to. Is there anyway that I can save them somewhere else in my computer, or maybe consolidaate my files? I have an 80g hard drive and I only copied 3 dvd's full of files to the computer. At the most, they are maybe 3-4 gigs each - none are the full 4.7. Is there any way to still save the files without taking up so much room? PLease let me know- thanks!

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Deline

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15. December 2005 @ 18:46

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No there's no way, zipping it or raring the files would save very little space and is not worth the time.

Simplest way to solve the problem is to burn the files to a DVD disc, then delete them.

Or get a bigger HDD, or clean up some room elsewhere I guess =)

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Rotary

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15. December 2005 @ 21:21

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hi

right click on the drive in my computer window and go to properties i think it is it will tell you used space and free space left...

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rn73

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16. December 2005 @ 17:51

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I have an 80GB HD and had an old 20GB drive as a storage drive. Could only store about 4 ISO movies on the 20GB HD until I backed them up and erased. Of course had to keep Lilo & Stich as the grandkids sticky fingers and rough use would require another backup. I kept it for future need so I didn't have to pull out the original and go through the whole decryption process. Got a 300GB HD to replace the 20GB HD for storage and I'm in seventh heaven! Now I can store full decrypted unshrunk movies and play around with burning just the movie, whole shrunk DVDs, or juste removing certain items like those anoying legal notices and previews. Must have more than 10 movies in full and/or ISO and still have 200GB free. If have the ability to add another HD go for it. Look around for sales at some of the on line vendors. Just have to make sure whatever you want to get is compatible with your particular computer. As I understand it some of the new SATA HD won't work with some older systems.

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gamename

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16. December 2005 @ 18:15

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yeah make sure to get the ide hard drive and not the serial ata if u have a older system. another way u can store videos on ur hd is use DivX to compress or ratDVD. remember that when u use compression u will lose quality.

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