Sync iPad 2 with iTunes on MacBookAir

Hi!
1.Please don't laugh at me when I say I am not being able to sync my iPad, after having been using it for more than a year now!!
2. I had been syncing my iPad2 with iTunes on my Windows Vista machine. After my Windows Vista Laptop crashed, i replaced it with a Macbook Air 128GB (MBA). Since hard disk space on the MBA is at a premium, I transferred my iTunes Media Library to a 64 GB USB drive.
3. Now I tried to sync my iPad with iTunes on my MBA.
4. iTunes on MBA saw my iPad: sync started: backing up completed without any hitch: and then came the error message "The iPad “Rishav’s iPad” cannot be synced because there is not enough free space to hold all of the selected items (additional 7.88 GB required)".
5. I checked the available memory on my MBA, USB and iPad: details:
     a. HDD of MBA: 86.6 GB out of 120.47 GB Free.
     b. USB Drive where iTunes Media Library is located: 39.93 GB out of 64 GB Available.
     c. iPad 2: 7.7 GB out of 58.1 GB Available.
6. Despite this availability of free memory, the sync is not going through.
7. The memory utilization within my iPad, as seen graphically on iTunes on my MBA (when iPad is connected to MBA) is as follows:
     a. Audio:      8.10 GB
     b. Video:      7.30 GB
     c. Photos:    7.50 GB
     d. Apps:      14.00 GB
     e. Books:      1.01 GB
     f. Others:      2.60 GB
     g. Free:       17.94 GB
Please advise how I can carry out my sync.
Regards

Ok guys! Mystery solved.
I got the crashed Windows Vista machine up..... albeit crawling..... and synced the iPad back with iTunes on it. From the iPad itself, deleted ALL video files (movies and podcasts). From Windows iTunes, by manually managing the audio files, deleted ALL Audio files.
Thereafter got back to MBA iTunes and synced. This time the operation went through.
Thank you for giving the matter a thought. Shared the way I managed to resolve it so that somebody somewhere, trying to do a similar operation and running into similar problem as I, can have some pointers to resolve his/ her issues.
Thank you everyone.
Regards

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