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Mousebaby

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External hard drive. Is there a way to do this without actually putting Windows XP on the external? :popcorn:


Oh and please speak in english, I am a novice computer geek, not expert. :lol:
 
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wkndbeacher

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I thought you were going to say, you ran Aps off the road or something lol
 
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Mousebaby

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chess said:
haha dont do it.. use external for backups
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While I see your point, please understand that this laptop came with a small harddrive and it is almost completely full. I have removed unused programs and it is still above 3/4 full. So, that being said, I don't want to spend money on a new harddrive for the computer right now. So I'm being creative so to speak. :lol:
 
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Mousebaby said:
While I see your point, please understand that this laptop came with a small harddrive and it is almost completely full. I have removed unused programs and it is still above 3/4 full. So, that being said, I don't want to spend money on a new harddrive for the computer right now. So I'm being creative so to speak. :lol:
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You cannot "run" it from the external drive, but you can install it there to save space. When you install the program, it asks where to install it. Specify a directory on the external drive. The program itself will reside on the external drive, but when you use it, it will still most likely use the internal hard drive as scratch space.

Are you aware you can compress directories and folders on a drive under XP? Right click on the C: drive and select Properties. If the drive was formatted in NTFS, it may show a check box to allow compression. You can also do that with select folders. Click on Properties, then the Advanced button. If the drive is too full already, it may not have enough space to perform the compression and the option will not be displayed.
 
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Mousebaby

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GWguy said:
You cannot "run" it from the external drive, but you can install it there to save space. When you install the program, it asks where to install it. Specify a directory on the external drive. The program itself will reside on the external drive, but when you use it, it will still most likely use the internal hard drive as scratch space.

Are you aware you can compress directories and folders on a drive under XP? Right click on the C: drive and select Properties. If the drive was formatted in NTFS, it may show a check box to allow compression. You can also do that with select folders. Click on Properties, then the Advanced button. If the drive is too full already, it may not have enough space to perform the compression and the option will not be displayed.
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Yep, I figured out the compression thing a long time ago. Unfortunately by the time I figured it out the drive was so full that it wanted to take 15 hrs. to compress everything! :lmao: I didn't feel like waiting around for it to do that. So, what I have done is uninstall everything from my C drive that I wanted to put on the external and then installed it and directed it to go to the external like you said. Works perfectly, now I can do that compression! :lol: Thanks for all your help! :huggy:
 
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GWguy said:
You cannot "run" it from the external drive, but you can install it there to save space. When you install the program, it asks where to install it. Specify a directory on the external drive. The program itself will reside on the external drive, but when you use it, it will still most likely use the internal hard drive as scratch space.

Are you aware you can compress directories and folders on a drive under XP? Right click on the C: drive and select Properties. If the drive was formatted in NTFS, it may show a check box to allow compression. You can also do that with select folders. Click on Properties, then the Advanced button. If the drive is too full already, it may not have enough space to perform the compression and the option will not be displayed.
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:yeahthat:

BTW - I just noticed your avatar! :killingme
 
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Mousebaby

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Mousebaby said:
Yep, I figured out the compression thing a long time ago. Unfortunately by the time I figured it out the drive was so full that it wanted to take 15 hrs. to compress everything! :lmao: I didn't feel like waiting around for it to do that. So, what I have done is uninstall everything from my C drive that I wanted to put on the external and then installed it and directed it to go to the external like you said. Works perfectly, now I can do that compression! :lol: Thanks for all your help! :huggy:
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OK, now I'm gonna complain! I did this compression thingy and it totally F----D UP my PC! I tried uncompressing, nope, no go, still fried! I ended up having to totally restore my computer. DON'T COMPRESS if you can help it! Just a friendly FYI! :howdy:
 
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Mousebaby said:
OK, now I'm gonna complain! I did this compression thingy and it totally F----D UP my PC! I tried uncompressing, nope, no go, still fried! I ended up having to totally restore my computer. DON'T COMPRESS if you can help it! Just a friendly FYI! :howdy:
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Sorry you had a problem with it! I routinely compress my drives at work and at home and have never had a problem. It is possible that your disk was so badly defraged that it had an issue, or there was a problem with the drive itself. Maybe run DiskCheck on it before you reload too much onto it. (Open My Computer, right-click on the drive, select Properties, select the Tools tab).
 
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Mousebaby

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GWguy said:
Sorry you had a problem with it! I routinely compress my drives at work and at home and have never had a problem. It is possible that your disk was so badly defraged that it had an issue, or there was a problem with the drive itself. Maybe run DiskCheck on it before you reload too much onto it. (Open My Computer, right-click on the drive, select Properties, select the Tools tab).
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I had just defragged and the disk check came back clean when I ran it. :shrug: I guess its possible it just messed up some files that were not able to be compressed. I kept getting messages about something not doing something when applying these attributes. :shrug: :lmao:
 
dn0121

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My opinion only but compression has never been a good thing. I always tell my customers to not use it.
 
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