Use PORTABLE Hard Drive As a Normal one? (installing maple story)

**ryannathans** · #1 31st Jan 2009, 03:30

hi there i have a laptop with a "bad" hard drive and only have 2gb left but all i want to do is use my 120gb portable hard drive as a second one to install stuff just like a fixed one. how do i do this?

i have formatted the hard drive as NTFS what next?

( i want to use this on a xp )

**Hybr!d** · #2 31st Jan 2009, 03:40

Are you wanting to put the operating system on this external drive or games, software, data?

**ryannathans** · #3 31st Jan 2009, 03:43

i want to use it like the one inside the computer

**Hybr!d** · #4 31st Jan 2009, 03:46

You need to be specific.

**ryannathans** · #5 31st Jan 2009, 03:48

i want to install a game on it and play it using that computer

**Hybr!d** · #6 31st Jan 2009, 03:50

Plug it in and when installing the game select the external drive instead of C:\.

The game will probably run slow tho' due to the external drive access times.

**ryannathans** · #7 31st Jan 2009, 03:53

will try that

**Hybr!d** · #8 31st Jan 2009, 03:58

Another option is to clean up your main drive, chances are it's full of temp files and junk if it hasn't be done before or recently.

Ccleaner will free up a load of space with one click. http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/

**ryannathans** · #9 31st Jan 2009, 04:59

the main drive is only 10 gb lol

**Hybr!d** · #10 31st Jan 2009, 06:28

Ah I see, drives are dirt cheap, might be worth upgrading.

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