I'm totally a dummy when it comes to computers, but I was told I could buy more disc space, is this so?
2007-05-20 07:03:39 · 8 answers · asked by barbaranne1942 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Absolutely - you can purchase another hard drive for your computer. I recommend that you do this asap.
1) Purchase an EXTERNAL hard drive. Everyone uses a different amount of space on their hard drive depending on what they do, but, these days hard drives are fairly inexpensive. Most folks do just fine with about 250 Gig external hard drive, which you can easily get for between $100-200.
http://www.geeks.com/products.asp?cat=HDD
I recommend getting at least two external hard drives, one for backups and another for your day-to-day use.
2) Put all your software on the C: drive.
I also recommend you take a look at some USB portable flash drives that will let you store up to 8 gig of data. Or, you can purchase one online.
Since it's portable, you can take the drive with you everywhere, which is a smart thing to do in case your computer crashes or your house burns down (heaven forbid - but it happens...). You want to take steps to ensure your most important data doesn't get lost or destroyed. Most people don't do this, and eventually lose much or all their information.
It's VERY important to have a "backup" of your most essential info.
2007-05-20 14:43:37 · answer #1 · answered by Advisorpro06 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're not confident installing a second hard drive or don't want to pay to have one installed you could opt for an external hard drive and move your personal files to that to clear some space.
However if your computers hard disk is filled with software eg games and other applications you need to replace the hard drive with a larger one.
Ideally you would want to have your original drive contents duplicated to your new drive *please note this is different from backing up files. If you get someone to do this for you and they use GHOST for the duplication make sure that the partitions are resized correctly and appropriately otherwise you can end up with the same problem on your new drive with all your data on a partition the size of your old C drive.
2007-05-20 07:18:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep, you can buy a larger hard disk drive for your computer. You can find them at most electronics dealers like Radio Shack, Circuit City, etc. Even Wal-Mart is carrying hard drives these days. If you know anybody good in computers, they can help ya install the new hard drive into your computer.
2007-05-20 08:07:42 · answer #3 · answered by terran_ghost 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you can purchase a larger Hard-Drive for your computer. Depending on the size of drive you purchase prices range from $40-800.
2007-05-20 07:07:52 · answer #4 · answered by Bill S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to buy a hard drive with more GBs.I just bought a 300Gb drive from Maxtor.com for $95.00.You can buy whatever you think youll need.From 40GB up to 500GB or anything in between.Hope this helped
2007-05-20 07:12:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you can buy a new hard drive. You can get a hard drive from a site like Newegg.com, though if you don't know what you're doing you should probably get someone's help with doing that.
2007-05-20 07:21:11 · answer #6 · answered by William E. Roberts 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2017-01-10 10:34:39 · answer #7 · answered by buono 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes buy another hard drive
2007-05-20 07:06:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋