hard drive space

[gedk]

i have a 40gb installed in my pc of which only 750mb are available, and i have installed an additional 80gb external drive with 67gb available.............

when i am trying to transfer the the footage i have on my 20gb hard drive camcorder onto my pc , it starts only to stop a short while later advising me that i do not have enough space on my drive.......

my question is ..........how do i start utilising the space on my external drive........can i download my camcorder directly on to my external drive.....i have seen the phrase "partitioning" ..and with my external freecom drive i have access to 'freecom sync', 'secure and compress' and 'autorun'.......

any advice gratefully accepted

ged

[lonzuk]

I assume you are transferring the file from within an application that came with the camcorder?

Is it not possibly to plug in the camcorder and browse to it under My Computer? It should appear as an extra drive. Open it open and hopefully you will see the file you need.

If it does you should then be able to drag and drop what you need onto the External hard drive.

[Catso]

Or, are you using some sort of camera utility to copy the 20gb? If so, it may have a setting in it that determines where to put the file on your PC, and it is still pointing to the old drive.

BTW, I presume you have formatted the new drive? I guess so if you have 67gb available.

Or you could move some existing files off the 40gb to the 67gb drive, to free up some space.