Movie Maker to Edit/Copy from Sony Handycam-made DVD

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I believe your solution is to purchase a large second hard drive, but check
PapaJohn's website.... www.papajohn.org
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Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com

"Salemgrrl" <Salemgrrl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BCB9B0B8-3C83-415A-B46F-2194FC3505B6@microsoft.com...
>I am new to the Digital video recording world, but I have now mastered the
>use of my Sony Handycam Digital Camera. I have a Sony Vaio computer with
>the Movie Maker program installed. I have no problem viewing the homemade
>DVD's with Media Player, but I can not get Movie Maker to recognize the
>DVD, so that I may edit and copy my home movies. This is probably a very
>elementary question, but I've read all the manuals and consulted the Best
>Buy employees and I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Also, I can not save
>the DVD footage to the C Drive because of lack of disk space, even though
>I've run the disk cleanup several times. I'm at a loss. Please help!

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.video (More info?)

A good external hard drive, try E-Buyer.com- Xp is a bit
choosy about recognising drives etc so it may suddenly re-
recognise the drive! (honest) if you're under warranty go
back to the store.
>-----Original Message-----
>I believe your solution is to purchase a large second
hard drive, but check
>PapaJohn's website.... www.papajohn.org
>--
>Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging &
Hardware)
>www.coribright.com
>
>"Salemgrrl" <Salemgrrl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in message
>news:BCB9B0B8-3C83-415A-B46F-2194FC3505B6@microsoft.com...
>>I am new to the Digital video recording world, but I
have now mastered the
>>use of my Sony Handycam Digital Camera. I have a Sony
Vaio computer with
>>the Movie Maker program installed. I have no problem
viewing the homemade
>>DVD's with Media Player, but I can not get Movie Maker
to recognize the
>>DVD, so that I may edit and copy my home movies. This
is probably a very
>>elementary question, but I've read all the manuals and
consulted the Best
>>Buy employees and I don't know what I'm doing wrong.
Also, I can not save
>>the DVD footage to the C Drive because of lack of disk
space, even though
>>I've run the disk cleanup several times. I'm at a
loss. Please help!
>
>
>.
>