Using Capture Now HELP

I am new to FCE and wish to use capture now to get a whole tape onto the system. I have set the time limit to 60 minutes. Then when I start Capture Now everything runs okay until I get a message stating. "Capture ended due to lack of disk space" on viewing the contents/data regarding the file it has copied 9.25 minutes of video at 2GB.
I have a 500Gb external hard drive nominated as a scratch disk.
I have tried altering system settings in FCE but still have the same problem.
I am using a canopus advc110 to transfer the video onto the system.

you should reformat your external hard drive to os extended. copy everything on your external you want to keep, then reformat.
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/partitioningtiger.html

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