In a nutshell, the C drive on my Toshiba laptop is full (there really is no more I can delete from it - it's the regular, very necessary anti-virus/anti-spyware updates that have filled it). But, I have an external hard drive of 250Gb attached to this pc with 213GB free, and so, I want to know what/how I can use that space to run my pc. In short, I want to try to set up that external drive as my MAIN drive, if possible.
Any advice folks please?
2007-04-06 08:38:35 · 4 answers · asked by Superdog 7 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Your operating system HAS to stay in your Primary Hard Disk. What you can do is to move your Documents and some applications to external drive.
Moving your files should be an easy copy/paste.
To move the apps you may need to uninstall and reinstall for and specify (during installation) the new path. You should create the same structure (ie: X:\Program Files\App...)
2007-04-06 08:46:44 · answer #1 · answered by MrLobito 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best advice would be to migrate any data files to the external drive and only use your C drive for your OS and applications. This will help to prevent the possibility of a virus migrating to your OS.
2007-04-06 15:51:34 · answer #2 · answered by Compurednek 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your PC is relativly new you should be able to set up your external HD as your first boot disk in BIOS but be careful. Put your OS on the external HD.
2007-04-06 15:48:14 · answer #3 · answered by K.S. THiS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Remove all the updates except the newest one. You don't need to keep them. Each update has everything. Turn off hibernation. Turn off System restore. I bet you get half your hard drive back.
2007-04-06 18:22:56 · answer #4 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋