Mobile/PDA About Us Advertise here
User User name Password  
  Not registered yet? Register here.
Lost your password? Click here. 		 
  Home   News   Guides   Downloads   Glossary   Hardware   Profiles   Forums   v4  
 Advertise at AfterDawn.com     Link to us!     Private messages     Compose a private message     List of all updated threads     Threads without replies     Search messages
Monday 25.11.2024 / 17:32
Search AfterDawn Forums:        In English   Suomeksi   På svenska
afterdawn.com > forums > pc hardware > other pc hardware > how to transfer from destop to external drive?
Show topics
 
Forums
Forums
How to transfer from destop to external drive?
  Jump to:
 
Posted Message
breapinky
Junior Member
_ 		10. March 2010 @ 09:51 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I bought a 1TB external hard drive to open up space on my desktop hard drive. How do i transfer or what kind of files or programs can i transfer to my external drive? I have already transfered all of my picture files. But my desktop hard drive is still almost full and i have all that space on my external drive? Can i transfer all of my program files as well and still be able to use them on my desktop as long as my external drive is connected? Thanks for the help.
[ + quote]
ddp
Moderator
_ 		10. March 2010 @ 16:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
transfered as in copy & paste or cut & paste? programs have to be installed on the external hd or they won't if you cut & paste from internal hd to external hd. how big is the internal hd & how much of it is free?
[ + quote]
breapinky
Junior Member
_ 		11. March 2010 @ 21:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I'll have to check-but as far as free space-the last i remember it saying was 11% free space. i was thinking all i had to do was drag over-as in copy/cut and paste. but you are saying i need to re-install them onto my external drive huh? that makes sense.
[ + quote]
Advertisement
_ 		__
 
_
ute4after
Newbie
_ 		11. March 2010 @ 23:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Are you saying you want to install programs on the ExternalHDD so you can run them from the ExtHDD? This doesn't sound like it would
work very well. My PC's HDD is very full as yours is. What I did was to drag and drop the Installation files of programs. To make it simple if you have the .exe for a program, just drag and drop it to a folder on the ExtHDD. But don't install it on the ExtHDD. Then if the program stops working on your PC, drag the .exe back to the PC and re-intall the program.
[ + quote]
afterdawn.com > forums > pc hardware > other pc hardware > how to transfer from destop to external drive?
 

Digital video: AfterDawn.com | AfterDawn Forums
Music: MP3Lizard.com
Gaming: Blasteroids.com | Blasteroids Forums | Compare game prices
Software: Software downloads
Blogs: User profile pages
RSS feeds: AfterDawn.com News | Software updates | AfterDawn Forums
International: AfterDawn in Finnish | AfterDawn in Swedish | AfterDawn in Norwegian | download.fi
Navigate: Search | Site map
About us: About AfterDawn Ltd | Advertise on our sites | Rules, Restrictions, Legal disclaimer & Privacy policy
Contact us: Send feedback | Contact our media sales team
 
  © 1999-2024 by AfterDawn Ltd.

  IDG TechNetwork