I already have a stock one on my computer, but if I buy a new external hard drive, would I still be able to keep all the data on my old one? Would it be like having two hard drives, except they act as one big one?
2006-08-22 12:23:55 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
The external hard drive will act as a second hard drive on your computer. It won't affect the original drive at all.
They won't act as one big one - they will be two drives. Your default drive is always the C: drive. Your new external drive will appear as another letter, such as D, E, F, etc.
2006-08-22 12:26:57 · answer #1 · answered by Tim G 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You would be able to keep all the data on your old. My notebook has a 30 GB internal hard drive. I added a 160 GB external hard drive. They don't act as one big hard drive, though you do have access to everything on both hard drives....provided that before you boot up, you remember to turn on the external hard drive :-) I forgot one time and, at first, couldn't figure out where everything on that drive had gone.
I got my 160 GB external for less than $100 with the rebates that were offered.
2006-08-22 12:34:30 · answer #2 · answered by Irish1952 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you buy an external hard drive you can chose to remov all the data on your internal drive or you can coppy your internal drive and back it up. or just keep putting info ito the external. The drives will operate as 2 seperate drives but infomation can flow freely between them. you can even place programs on teh external drive and play off them.
Hope it helped...
2006-08-22 12:28:55 · answer #3 · answered by webmaster_trainee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No once you plug in an external drive the system will automatically detect the drive and assign it a drive letter. They will never combine as one drive. You will have two seperate drives.
2006-08-22 12:26:13 · answer #4 · answered by the_proms 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Basically, its like another Hard drive attached to your computer, but you can move/ or carry it around with you. Yes, you'd have all the orginial files on your internal one and only the files you want saved would go to the external one.
2006-08-22 12:25:38 · answer #5 · answered by NecroKim101 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its basically a hard drive that you can storeyour extra files o or some other important info you have on your pc they work just like a jump drive or sd card except its bigger and can store 10 times as much
2006-08-22 12:30:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would just have 2 drives.
2006-08-22 12:25:57 · answer #7 · answered by Obsean 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its like a second hdd for your system and works on any windows machine, backup storing files, fast speeds with usb2 and firewire.
2006-08-22 21:14:19 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
an external is ment more music, videos, and other documents so that it makes ur ssytem faster
2006-08-22 12:26:10 · answer #9 · answered by Mr. Computer 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋