In Media Center. Error message "Disk full" when it is not

When I try to start 'Live TV' in Media Center I get a display message that
says the disk is full and I have to select a new disk in Settings. I have 16
Gigs free on the hard drive and it is a 120 Gig hard drive. Remember, I'm not
trying to record anything; just want to watch live t.v.

I have the minimum allocated (10%) for t.v. recordings. (Its the minimum
allowed In SETTINGS.
What to do????
Thanx,
Mark Gass

 

Allocate more. Live TV is written to disk before being replayed. This allows the trick play features
such as pause & rewind live TV.
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Cheers

Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
MCE MVP

 

This is a bug in MCE.

The default setting for recorded TV is to keep recordings until space is
needed. So, when the disk fills up with recorded TV, MCE will automatically
delete the oldest recording to free up space for new recordings. So, unless
you change the default for recorded TV, or regularly delete recorded TV, the
disk will always be full under normal use!

I have a second drive (E dedicated to recorded TV, allocated 100% to MCE
(the C: drive is just the boot drive with over 80% free space). Since I
don't manually delete recorded TV, the E: drive is always full and MCE
automatically deletes the oldest recordings when it needs more space. Most
of the time MCE works fine. However, every once in a while, I will get that
Disk Full error when watching Live TV. I suspect there is a bug in the
algorithm which calculates free space. Once this error shows up, the only
way I have found to stop it is to manually delete a recorded TV show.

-rcme