Loosing Hard Drive Space

Hello,

I recently bought a mod chip for my PS2 and started burning some games. Since i only have 1 DVD burner, I create an ISO image of the Game on my Hard Drive, then burn the image onto a Blank DVD -R. Once I burn the game successfully, Nero automatically deletes the image from my Hard Drive. However, I lose like 2gig of space each time I burn a gam and cannot figure out where the space is going. Any Ideas?

Thanks for your help!

 

right click your recycle bin and select 'empty norton protected files'

 

that worked! Thanks a lot

 

Just a quick thought. After you deleted all the crap you may need to defrag your drive to speed it up.

 

With movie ripping and game ripping defrags are important. I do mine weekly.

Good advice 2old!

 

I used to think defragging is great, but I rarely do it now.

I have 2 160GB harddrives. I use one for my operating system and one ONLY for dvd stuff (including video editing).

Basically I have a folder on my second drive for dvd burning movies and that is where skrink burns to. After Shrink burns the movie to a dvd, then i delete it from my harddrive and empty it from my recycle bin.

So long as I do that every time, the computer just burns the next movie onto my harddrive at the same space that the last movie was.

I don't see why defragging is needed if you aren't saving stuff all over the place on the drive (such as if you don't delete the movies and after 5 or 6 movies you would have burned onto a big portion of the drive).