i have a 10gig h.d.in my laptop & a 80gig external h.d. i want my laptop to recognize the 80gigger as the systems main unit. i want to have my media files & iTunes installed on the external hard drive so the internal h.d. doesn't overload. as it is now, i am constantly having problems with programs such as i.e. "not responding"
2007-01-07 07:11:09 · 5 answers · asked by sugarkane 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
yo can not have an external hard drive setup as your boot drive.
2007-01-07 07:15:41 · answer #1 · answered by Taba 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
FAT32 has a partition decrease of 32GB (not 256GB as previous answerer suggested) and a document length of 2GB and may want to be no strong for video clips that could exceed 2GB so i does not worry with that. you may want to divide the force into 2 NTFS walls inspite of the indisputable fact that it would want to be less difficult merely to create folders instead so some distance as backing up, abode windows 7 will do an area backup onto the exterior force - it shops the backup as a compressed photo of the troublesome force so it takes up a lot less area - you may specify the position you want the backup to bypass in the course of the backup procedure abode windows 7 is able to doing a bare metallic restore (even as the device force is going abdomen-up) and also you shouldn't ought to re-enter each of the registration codes lower back inspite of the indisputable fact that it truly is continually a strong idea to make an commentary of those besides HTH DavidG
2016-12-01 23:24:36 · answer #2 · answered by erke 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u can get hard disk case which costs u around 1000 rs where it will get power n data jack that connects to ur hard disk n ull have external usb drive to conect to ur pc and a power supply externally from the source so go for it n ur new external hard disk is ready its called external hard disk case
2007-01-07 07:14:55 · answer #3 · answered by chanu v 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you have to exchange the drives: take out the 10 gb and replace it with the 80 gb. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.w00tw00t.co.uk/computer/laptop/advent-laptop-change-hard-drive-specifications.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.w00tw00t.co.uk/computer/laptop/replacement-hard-drive.html&h=480&w=640&sz=54&hl=en&start=9&tbnid=-7RX__wt6Be7cM:&tbnh=103&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dnotebook%2Bharddrive%2Bchange%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff this will give you an idea on how to change the drives. you may have to transfer your current operating system onto your 80 gb drive use http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n&pid=999&swid=1
2007-01-07 07:19:04 · answer #4 · answered by Jordan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
check this link http://www.windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?t=43314
2007-01-07 07:43:06 · answer #5 · answered by abnormalmale 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋