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Edd
22-10-12, 07:50 PM
I really don't know that much about computers and as there seems to be a few people on here that know there stuff I need a bit of help please....

I have a Acer PC

As far as I can tell it has two hard drives

Acer : c
Acer : d

It says C drive is 99% full and D drive 1% full

I'm thinking that C drive stores stuff and D drive is for the running of it all

I'm guessing I need a external hard drive, seen some 250gb ones

If I get one of these is it just for storing files? Music, pics etc

Or could I put a whole program on there? Like media player, iTunes etc

Or can D drive be used instead? Move programs, files over

Or just bin it and get a new PC? lol

Any help and advice would be great

Edd
Southie
22-10-12, 08:24 PM
Buy yourself a 1tb external hard drive and backup all the ford things you have too it, lol
Edd
22-10-12, 08:28 PM
Buy yourself a 1tb external hard drive and backup all the ford things you have too it, lol


i can buy a new PC for the price of them lol no ford stuff either, but have permanently given up talking about ford stuff on here now as i was upsetting too many people
Stuart
22-10-12, 08:29 PM
Moving program's = hard.... Moving files like porn/pics/films etc is easy.
Southie
22-10-12, 08:30 PM
Edd, 1tb external hard drives are cheap as chips.

Get one of these ;)

http://www.jigsaw24.com/product-details/x276aad/lacie-rugged-mini-1tb-mobile-hard-drive
Edd
22-10-12, 08:32 PM
Moving program's = hard.... Moving files like porn/pics/films etc is easy.

i was thinking that Stu

what i think im asking is, if i get a external hard drive then store music on there will programs like media player, iTunes be able to access them ?

i really dont have much of a clue with this stuff tbh

but basically my pc runs mega slow cause im guessing it full
Stuart
22-10-12, 08:34 PM
You just aim the players at the new drive.
Edd
22-10-12, 08:34 PM
Edd, 1tb external hard drives are cheap as chips.

really?

edit ; so they are lol

what just get one of those, job done?
Southie
22-10-12, 08:34 PM
Or a 500gb one:

http://www.jigsaw24.com/product-details/x974aya/lacie-rikiki-500gb-usb-3.0-mobile-external-hard-drive-
Edd
22-10-12, 08:35 PM
You just aim the players at the new drive.

really that easy then?

get one, plug in, save stuff to that hard drive/move stuff there, players find that stuff, job done?
Southie
22-10-12, 08:38 PM
Edd, I have 3 external hard drives 1tb, one has music/iTunes on... one has my work on... The other is for all random downloads and :cough: pictures lol

I do however have two internal hard drives on my Mac, one is totally blank apart from my system software incase my main hard drive ever fails ;)
Edd
22-10-12, 09:16 PM
Thanks very much for the help guys, much appreciated
Jack
22-10-12, 10:16 PM
Why is everyone jumping in about buying more storage when D: is 99% empty? lol

What are the sizes of the two partitions? They'll be on the same physical disk, it may have been set up so D: is for all your personal data and suchlike and C: is for Windoze and a few preinstalled programs.
Andy
22-10-12, 10:18 PM
Soon you will have a control room and will jack off looking like this...

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRPSnKG0SOA2VAe4RaJrF9Im9FfDAGa4 cu0USSdMf5sGbUQwRIf