Disk full attempting to move files from PC to Mac

I've just bought a brand new Macbook Air. I'm attempting to move photos, music and some documents from my old acer onto the macbook. However when i've tried to do this, i've found that the disk is full. This disk is the macinstosh HD disk, though there is another disk shown aswell.
Any help on how I can transfer the rest of my stuff on would be great as I know there should be enough space on this machine to hold the smallish amount of stuff i'm putting onto it.
Thanks

I'm not moving everything from the acer but i reckon theres about 50 GB of stuff.
Well the MBA came with 500GB of storage, of which i've used next to none.
Although when I look in disk utility, I can see what appear to be two disks. One is called APPLE SSD SD0128F Media and the other is Macintosh HD. Combined they only have 240 GB of storage. Completely baffled about how to view where things are stored, as i'd normally just go to "my computer"
I'm using an external HDD to move the data.
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