Can I make room on my Hard drive by getting an external hard drive. How do I do it.?

Answer 1

The only way to make room on your hard drive is to take files off of it. Adding another hard drive will not make room on your current drive. Unfortunately, Windows treats them as two different things.

But, if you take all of your music, pictures, videos, documents, etc, and move them from the current drive to the new one, then you will have space on the current drive.

Adding an external hard drive is easy. 99.9% of the time all you do is plug it in, wait a minute or two for Windows to find configure it, and you are done.

Answer 2

Pretty easily actually. External hard drives are getting cheaper as we approach the era of "Terabyte" capacity. The external hard drive plugs into an available usb port and may or may not require an external power source. That's it!

Answer 3

yes, many options available. you can buy the sata or ide hard drive and enclosure seperately and fit together yourself or buy already assembled. they will plug into a usb port.

i dont know if you need a sata controller on the motherboard if going for the sata option, you could check this out when you buy.

you need a sata controller on a motherboard or need to fit an sata card if you want to fit a sata hard drive internally , im not sure whether the external ones i have described have sata controllers inside the enclosure themselves. they probably have.

Answer 4

Yes, you would have to cut files (richt-click, Cut) from your regular hard drive (usually called C:) and paste them into your external hard drive. I recommend cutting songs and pictures (if you have a lot of them)