my computer has been slow and crashing lately, i suspect because i only have about 5 gbs left out of my 40 gbs on the hard drive. if i buy an 80 gb external drive, will it be enough or will it really not last me long. i don't know how external hard drives work like if i transfer things onto, are they gonna take up the same amount of memory or more. how does the compression work?
2006-12-13 02:00:29 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
I use a program called System Mechanic that cleans your hard drive from useless files,duplicate files,broken shortcuts and it defrags it, meaning that it compresses your files so that it works faster.If you're
surtain that you need new hard drive then buy the 80gb external drive.It will be enough depending on how you use your computer.
Do you use it for office work?Do you play computer games on it?Or do you just download music?
www.iolo.com/sm/index.cfm - System Mechanic
2006-12-13 02:16:49 · answer #1 · answered by jamess007 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
External HDD's work like a flash drive. The computer accesses it to get things and only to get things. They aren't connected to your computer in the same way that an internal drive is.
To make a difference you will need to buy an internal hard drive. Hard drives are incredibly simple to install on a PC. It's just a matter of opening the PC, unscrewing and unplugging the old HDD and plugging the new one in.
If your PC has an extra slot, you can even add the new HDD instead of removing the old one in place of it. Most PC's have the extra slot and plug in for an additional HDD.
Besides that, internal drives are cheaper.
2006-12-13 10:09:06 · answer #2 · answered by jeff_is_sexy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An external hard drive works the same way as your internal for how it stores information. An 80GB should last you awhile if you are not installing a lot of software or downloading a lot of files.
2006-12-13 10:07:03 · answer #3 · answered by Gitix 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
5GB of space is sufficient for windows to function properly. During normal operation windows will use swap space to balance out opertion of the OS. Upgrading you're harddrive or adding an additional drive will not solve the problem. IT sounds like you're windows os itself is the problem. Personally, I'd buy the new drive, start fresh and install a new copy of windows on it. Make you're old drive a slave and copy files from you're old drive to new one. You will come out with a fresh OS and once complete just format you're old drive for additional space.
2006-12-13 10:12:25 · answer #4 · answered by negcshflw 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try defrag
2006-12-13 10:07:42 · answer #5 · answered by Barrett G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋