free space on a small hard drive?

Question

My main computer consists of a small 20gb hard drive where my external drive capacity is 250gb, this is where i store our music backups etc. I have copied my computers files over to the external, what is my next step to free space. Can I run any programmes from my external drive

Answer 1

Yes, you can install new programs to the extrenal drive. Moving existing ones there would be a bit trickier because they are already referrenced in the registry to the C: drive. But you could basically get away with having JUST the OS (Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP, whatever) on the C: drive and everything else on the external. That shouldn't use more the 2 or 3 Gb at the MOST on the internal. Of course, somebody is gonna come along after me and say that you can move EVERYTHING to the external and boot off the extrenal and blah blah blah, but booting off an external hard drive is usually not easy or fun. What I would probably do, being the type of guy who likes to take things apart, is disassemble your external drive housing, get the hard drive out of it, and mount it internally either as a second drive or more ideally as your primary / only drive. But you'd have you use something like Norton Ghost and Partition Magic to backup your existing drive and copy it over to the new one.

Answer 2

Just transfer all data from your small hard drive into the larger one and make the 250gig your primary hard drive and boom! Then again it depends on what your intentions are?? It will be easier to run programs on a larger hard drive since its probably newer and faster. Just make sure to have the memory to work with the hard drive, your motherboard should be the hard drive, you just got to experience it to find out what suites you, BUT if you insist on having it your way, then press F2 at start up and set the 250 gig hard drive as primary

Answer 3

Sure - just make sure that you copy the .exe file along with the other files for each particular programme. I had the same prob with my 16Gb HD.I moved some programme files onto my external HD.

You could also try zipping some files to make them much smaller, running your Disc Cleanup etc.

Answer 4

if you are using an external drive for ur documents etc 20 gb internal is well enough for os and other programs to run
yes you can install program in external directory but it may slow down ur machine.
try disk clean up (right click c:/ => properties) for more space.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Why not upgrade your hard drive?