My laptop is 20GB, but it lists the space as 10gb max on the C drive and 8.6gb max on the D drive. Since the minimum space required is 10gb to burn a DVD (with an external burner), would I be able to burn with a total of 10gb free space between the combined drives or would the space have to be on one drive (I don't know if the C and D drives are considered separate or not). I realize other factors would need to be considered also. Any information is greatly appreciated.
2007-01-01 03:12:26 · 3 answers · asked by TechNewbie 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Your physical 20G drive is partitioned (divided) into two logical drives of 10G each (less some minor overhead bits) into your C and D drives. They are totally separate.
You can burn a 1k file (very small) to a DVD if you want, but keep in mind that when you burn information to a DVD (or CD), the process stores a complete duplicate of what you are burning to the default drive first. This is usually the C drive. So if you want to burn 1M to a DVD, you will need at least 1M available on your hard drive for this tempory image file.
If you are backing up your entire C or D drives, you can only backup your files in chunks in sizes of available space.
2007-01-01 03:21:42 · answer #1 · answered by orlandobillybob 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
C: and D: are separate partitions on the same hard drive.
To burn a dvd you only need about 4GB of free space (or the amount of data the dvd has)
So yes you can! You could be able to store up to 4 dvd's on your hard drive... still better you write them one after another.
2007-01-01 11:20:47 · answer #2 · answered by ASD 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Minimum space is closer to 4.7gb. . . but yeah, as long as you have a burner attached, as well as files to burn, it will work. . .
2007-01-01 11:14:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋