can i make my laptop see my external hard drive as a local drive,and how?

Question

i have a compaq presario v2000 which came with a partitioned hdd, of about 7.5gb and 6.8gb are used upon start up for recovery, problem is certain app. wont run because my hdd reads as 85% full,i have an 80gb ext. hdd but it's not considered. and i've not been terribly successfull at resizing the partitioned area, fragged everything insight with all three attempts. but i'm learning fast "crash course" if you will.

Answer 1

The drive is 7.5gb total and 6.8 are used for restore? That doesn't sound right (nor good.)

Unfortunately you can't "extend" the primary drive size using the external drive. You can remove or possibly resize the recovery partition using software such as PartitionMagic. Your options, I think, are to

1) Clean up your temp files and delete unneeded ones
2) Try to install the software on the external drive if it'll give you that option
3) Swap the external drive for the internal one
4) Get a bigger internal drive

Answer 2

There are 3 considerable conection types for and exterior puzzling stress. there is USB, Firewire and eSATA, so as of increasing velocity. USB is the main easy, and all desktops made in the final 5 years have this connection. you'll be able to or would possibly no longer have the different 2. eSATA isn't very easy yet, so in case you opt to substantiate get a USB stress. yet particular, your tech grow to be a moron. Any stress will paintings with abode windows, Mac or Linux.