Can USB Flash drive be used as an additional hard drive?

Question

I have an old laptop with windows 98 which is running out of space on the hard drive. Can I get a 1 gb usb flash drive and use it as a hard drive? Specifically I want to load a tax program on to it and do tax returns and save the info just as if it were a hard drive.

Answer 1

well in your case you will not be able to load the tax program.But you an use it fo storing stuff like music and wordpad files.
Hope this helps!!

Answer 2

USB Flash drive is only use for storage of your files. You cannot install any program on your Flash drive.

You should get an additional Hard disk or both (harddisk and USB flash drive)
Since you are planning to install a tax program. It would be easy for you to transfer file from one computer to another.

Answer 3

Yes you can use it that way. It will most likely read as a removeable drive. What might also be a good idea is to remove junk from your present hard drive; clean out tmp files, the internet cache, cookies, etc as having insufficient space will affect your swap file.

Answer 4

I'm not sure about windows 98. I suspect it has to do with whatever device driver comes with your USB drive. Under windows XP, however, yes. I would say, there is a good chance you could do this without incident.

Answer 5

Yes and no. You can not install items on a flash drive becuase you will not have a registry. However you can move erroneus files such as movies, images, ect. to the flash drive and then use the space you freed to install your application.

Answer 6

yes i saw a 160gb flash drive at staples. they also have smaller ones.

you can install software on them but not every program will work. you can only use software that doesn't try to access windows reistry. these are called portable apps or stand alone programs. here are some sites with portable apps

http://www.portableapps.com/
http://www.portablefreeware.com/

i'm using a 512mb flash drive with mozilla firefox on it and several other programs