unknown prob. when burnin- disc problem, pleaseeee!

[rsuave5]

hi i put this in this topic because the action im tryin to do- burn with nero 5.5. > i was copying a dvd r with nero about 15 mins in it says isufficient space on my c disk, now i have to discs c and d respectively and my c disk is a 20 gig i store program and temporary etc. i keep about 8 gigs free but now it says fullim looking all over my files to try and find what is so friggin huge but i cant find it!!!?? all my files show that they are of normal siz????? how do i look through this disk more thouroughly to free up space and does this soud like a virus? my specs are above im win xp with a sony vaio that churns out discs usually easy

[tom61]

Rebooting helps, certian files (such as the swap file) stick around and consume space until you shutdown and reboot. If you normally have 8 GB free, the most likely causes of lack are space are CD or DVD images (several hundred megs a peice for the smallest), and if you've been editing alot of video, your swap file (a file windows uses as virtual memory) may have ballooned to several hundred megs.

[rsuave5]

i understand that but i cant find the file to delete or move anyway to find where the big file is? yes ive checked the accessible folders

[tom61]

In all likely hood its not one big file, but several medium sized files. I recently had to do some file cleaning myself, and was trying to figure out how 2 GB got eaten. I found out that it wasn't any single thing, but 40-50 MB each for games, I had 40MB of downloaded things in my Mirc directory. 40 to 50 megs adds up after awhile.

You might try looking on www.download.com for a program that shows graphically the layout of your folders, and how much is taken up by each.

[rsuave5]

i found out that i was trying to copy a dvd-r and nero started copying it to a cache on my c drive well it ran out of apace and a window came up saying not enough space so i shut down nero and went searching for the big file..... well it turns out that even though i had shut down nero it left the incomplete copy in a temporary cache in my c drive that i finally found.. now i use d.
a new question is why when im copying a 4 gig dvd-r does it take up 9 gigs on my computer in a temporary file?