Not Enough Space Available?

When I was just starting to learn how to burn DVDs, I wanted to burn a small collection of video clips to a DVD. When I had set up the DVD project and added the files (see How To Burn DVD-Video for instructions on how to burn movies and videos to DVD), I hit the "Burn" button... and what do I see?"There is not enough space available for the recording process"? Hmm.... I was sure the blank DVD had enough space. Actually, the error message says there is not enough space on the hard drive for the temporary files that Nero Vision creates during the burning process.

Here's how to fix that -

Solution 1 - Free up some space

The error message tells you which folder/drive is the problem, so you can try and see if you can delete some unnecessary files from that disk. In my case this wasn't an option since my C: disk contains mostly installed programs and system files.

Solution 2 - Set a different folder for temporary files

If you have another disk/partition with more free space (5 GB recommended), you can configure Nero Vision to use that instead. To do that, click the "More" button on the bottom of the Vision's window.

Then click "Configure".

In the "Application Settings" window select the "Folders" tab and click the button near the "Temporary files" box. Now select a new folder for the temp. files and click OK to save the changes.


Now you know how to burn a DVD even if there's not enough space on your primary hard drive.