ive just installed a new 250GB external hardrive it shows Jdrive my other drive is Cdrive?

Question

do i need to transfer all my stuff from Cdrive to my new Jdrive can anyone help

Answer 1

No. An external hard drive can be used for many things, but they are primarily used for data backup and storage. Transferring the entire contents of your C: drive to the external drive will render your system unusable. Even if you did run an OS from the external drive, it would be significantly slower because of the data transfer bandwidth between USB 2.0 compared to internal controllers.

You can put music, videos, installation [.exe programs], standalone programs, documents, eBooks, pictures, save game files, registry backups, etc on the backup drive. However, do NOT put entire program directories or system files and folders there.

*IRT Dr. Snake

["Your operating system is on your C drive. It always has been and always will be."]
Not necessarily. For one, the system drive letter can be changed. And two, different partitions have different letter assignments, and can also contain different OSs.

["IF you want to use the new drive as a "partition", you have to format it. Right now, your drive probably cannot be used to run programs. It is just data storage. If you want to install software to it, you have to make it an official "partition"."]
External drives come pre-formatted and partitioned. Once the drivers are installed, it can be used for data storage or to run programs.

Answer 2

It's just storage. Your operating system is on your C drive. It always has been and always will be. The new "J" drive that you just bought is simply more space to put junk.

Let's say you've just written a Word Document. You go to File>>Save. You click on the My Computer path and you can now save the file to either the C: drive or the J: drive. It really doesn't matter which one. When you want to open it again, the computer will just suck it out of where ever you put it.

--The Technical Stuff--
IF you want to use the new drive as a "partition", you have to format it. Right now, your drive probably cannot be used to run programs. It is just data storage. If you want to install software to it, you have to make it an official "partition". To do that, go to Control Panel>>Administrator Tools>>Something like "Storage" or "Disk" stuff>>...eventually you'll get a window that shows you each drive, and give you the option to make a new partition.

Answer 3

External drives are good for keeping a backup of all the things you would hate to loose from your computer, or transferring stuff to other computers.

It can be the J: drive G: drive Z: drive whatever, you can assign it a specific letter if you would like which can be done from disk management on XP or VIsta.

Just be sure if you do assign it a new letter, that you don't change the letter of an existing drive where you store info or access stuff from or you will truly knacker your system.

Answer 4

To change the letter designations assigned to your drives: click Start, Control Panel. In Classic view, double-click Administrative Tools. Double-click Computer Management and then click Disk Management. In the right-hand panel, right-click the desired drive. Click Change Drive Letter and Paths. Click Change. Change the drive letter to the desired designation. Caution: if another drive is already named with your choice, rename it to an unused letter (e.g., X). Click OK and then click OK again. Follow this procedure to rename any other drives. If need be, go back and rename drives—if you had to shuffle letters.

Shut down the open windows and reboot.

Answer 5

do you? I mean all you probably need to do is transfer the information you think is impotent. Not every last thing on that C drive. Also it might be that your C drive is bigger then your J drive. I'll just move the stuff you think is impotent. Your not Ghost the drive (mean to make a spit image of your C drive onto your J drive) All you probably need the external drive for is to backup pic, music, video, etc

Answer 6

Obviously you are not computer literate. The computer assigns each drive, and no you do not have to transfer anything if you do not want to. I put a 160 gig external and its called the g-drive and we use it for music.

Answer 7

exterior complicated force won't particularly make your computer quicker. it ought to actual sluggish it down extra. without equipment specs the main suitable advice i can provide you to velocity up your computer is to max out your memory and or a equipment restoration. submit some specs then i'm able to extra perfect be certain a manner that may additionally assist you.

Answer 8

No you do not need to transfer all your stuff, just the stuff you want to back up or save long term.