How can you get BTV to record to a different drive if the default drive is full

[mbmonk]

I am use BTV 3.4.4 and I have 2 seperate physical harddrives in my system. My C: Drive is the OS and my D: drive is for recordings. I have 10 gigs free on my C: drive that goes unused and I cannot find away to have BTV record to the C: once the D: drive is full.


Anyone know how to do this?

[jkoon]

Well you cant do this with btv alone (at least not at this time).

You may be able to find/write a little something that moves some of your recordings over if the freespace on a given drive gets too low.

[Terminal]

You could put a video folder on the C: drive and set it to a maximum of say 9 gig. Then switch one of your recordings to that folder. Not exactly what your looking for, but it's about the best you can do, short of going with some third party app or a batch file you create yourself as jkoon mentioned.

[mbmonk]

Thanks you for the ideas. I will do what terminal suggested (Since I am lazy ) .

[noodleNT]

JBOD

Thats the only way I know how to do it. If you have a RAID controler in your case you can do it.

[opilion]

If you're running XP Professional, I don't think you need a RAID controller. You should be able to setup both disks as dynamic disks and create a spanned volume that includes either all, or a portion of both drives.

"A spanned volume is created from free disk space that is linked together from multiple disks. You can extend a spanned volume onto a maximum of 32 disks. A spanned volume cannot be mirrored and is not fault-tolerant." - MS.

See Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 314343 - http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;314343

op

[McGee]

OK, mebbe I don't understand your problem, but when I added a new drive I went into configure -> video folders and added a new drive with the add new drive button. Then I went to configure -> recording preferences and selected the new drive in the video folder. I've been recording to the new drive ever since.

So if I don't understand the problem , give more detail.

[archie]

or you could record some programs on one hard drive and others on another. that is how i've used both my hdd. it also can be used to clean up the "watch" page. scroll down to my post on this page to see a step by step.

archie