if i buy a laptop wit a small hard drive(e.g 6GB ) can i buy a different 1 aswell like external watever it is?

Question

so i can have like 80GB

Answer 1

yes....

you could also replace the internal one (6gb is nothing)

Answer 2

If the laptop has a USB port, you will be able to use an external drive. However, you will probably NOT be able to run Windows from that drive. Meaning you would have to load Windows on the internal drive and boot from it, then use the external drive for data storage and installing any programs that will let you (not all programs can run from an external drive).

As far as replacing the drive, without knowing the model, I can not answer the question. While many laptop manufactuerer's have gone to a standard size for laptop hard dives, other continue to make their own, unique to the PC, hard drive. You will need to look up the make and model on the manufactrer's web site and see what the requirements are for a replacement drive. If they have a replacement drive, get the part number and google it. You will find any other drives that can be used in it place.

Answer 3

you can always add an expernal Hard drive (laptop size or desktop size) to a laptop, usually it is connected to the USB port and depending on the speed of the USB port can perform just as any internal hard drive. However you cannot put an operating system on it and you cant install most programs onto it, as sometimes the drive letter assigned to it may change and the programs path will not be found.

However depending on the make of your laptop, you can change the hard drive. to a new larger size. but that depends on a number of factors:

1. the manufacturer must support an upgrade, so that the hard drive bay should be easily accessible. in that case you can upgrade the hard drive with a new one that will be of a larger capacity. how ever if the bay is not that easily accessible you can get an expert to open it up (usually by removing the keyboard) and install the new hard drive. i know HP-Compaq, Dell, and some other manufacturers allow easy upgrade of hard drives by making the hard drive bay easily accessible.

2. You must also consider the make of your BIOS, if the bios is recognizing hard drives in CHS (cylinder head sector) mode it will recognize up to only 8GB of hard drive space. no matter the size of hard drive you put in. how ever if it is in the more mordern modes of LBA (logical block addressing) then it will recongnize up to a larger size of about 200GB. so you must check the bios support for larger hard drives. and make a decision based on that.

However no matter the CHS or LBA mode if you are using a windows 2000 or above Operating System, the computer will load different drivers for your hard drive other that the one provided by the BIOS so that more space will be recongnised by the computer that the BIOS does. that will recognise higher than 500GB.
But you can always use so many external hard drives, so that your drive space for movies, music and non essential system files can be unlimitted.. currently i use about five 500 GB external hard drive and i dont remember the last time i ever had to delete a file. though my laptop's internal hard drive is 80 GB..
Good Luck and God Speed.

Answer 4

u can either replace the internal hard drive (6gb one) which is quite simple to do. Or you can buy an external one, most of which simply operate by plugging into the USB port! My current external one is 400GB, and cost me about 80quid!