my computer has a small hard drive and im running out of room which could be another reason for it running slow. i bought a big external hard drive and want to know what i can transfer to the big hard drive to free up room. i need it explained in detail as i am basically computer illiterate. thank you!!!!!
2007-09-26 20:38:37 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
how do i pull up both hard drives so that i can transfer?
2007-09-26 20:56:27 · update #1
i will help you with it when i come over tonight... my friend has an external hard drive, and i can get an explanation from her...
2007-09-27 05:14:45 · answer #1 · answered by cherrybomb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Using your external hard drive for media is a good start. I would move all my movies and pictures that I don't look at often there. If you have a desktop you might as well keep it plugged in and move all of your music there that way you can still listen to the songs. I would definitely run disk clean up after you are done, defrag as well when you have moved all the files you can to your external hd.
2007-09-27 03:43:28 · answer #2 · answered by Adam C 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A slow computer is usually the result of hitting limits in multiple areas of hardware, one of which is the fixed disc capacity. To run up to its practical maximum rates, a computer needs plenty of main memory (viz., Random Access Memory, or RAM); I recently updated my own eMachines system to 1.12GB from the as-shipped 256MB in order to run up to 50 processes under MS-Windows XP without need for constant swapping, which slows down a system a few orders of magnitude, for instance. Most recent desktop and mid-tower systems can support 2GB of main memory.
The best fixed disc set for a given system is dependent on the hard-drive interface. 7200 RPM hard drives are available for U/133 ATA, 10000 RPM drives for Serial ATA, and 15000 RPM drives for U/320 and Serial-Attach SCSI. With today's space-hungry applications, you'll want the most capacity you can budget for. One problem that I see in external drives is the capacity of the connection; U/320 SCSI is still the best for external hard drives at this time, as USB 2.0 and IEEE 1394 are seriously throughput-limited. I have yet to review information about external SASI drives and bus adapters.
The software to offload to the external drive is dependent on frequency of usage; you'll need critical files and directories on the internal drive if you system is to run reliably. Several vendors offer applications to support hardware replacements and upgrades such as you propose.
2007-09-27 04:01:51 · answer #3 · answered by B. C. Schmerker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
any files that are not related to your operating system. if you organize your personal files they can all be sved on an external drive. keep your operating system in tack an save everything else to the external drive
2007-09-27 03:47:01 · answer #4 · answered by sllyjo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
buy more ram, defrag your hard drives, and do a scan check on all of your drives
2007-09-27 03:43:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
go to the computer section....those guys know it all!!!! They will help u!!~~~~~~~~~~~~~> goodluck!
2007-09-27 03:42:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋