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How much can i move onto a external hard drive.

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theviking51 | 17:10 Sun 24th Apr 2011 | Computers
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Just that my laptop is playing up and need to move loads of files.
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So you can move all of the data files but not those associated with the operating system or with individual programs. e.g. you can move all of your music and video files but not Windows Media Player (or other programs for playing audio or video). Similarly you can move all of your images but not the program you view images with. You can also transfer all of your...
17:21 Sun 24th Apr 2011
Depends how large the external hard drive is...
You can move as much as the external HD has capacity for - if you go to Computer on your desk top, the different drives will show up and (on mine) it tells you how much you've used on that drive and how much space you still have left. Mine takes nearly 500GB of files.
It will depend on the size of your external
hard drive. They now go up to 2TB or more.
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I have a 160 gb memory on lap, and bought a 250gb external. i'm running vista business.
> I have 160GB memory on my laptop

No you don't - your laptop has a 160GB hard drive. Hard drive and memory are not the same thing...
Look at the figures you've given... there is more space on the external hard drive than the capacity of your laptop (I don't think you mean 'memory' either)...
So you can move all of the data files but not those associated with the operating system or with individual programs. e.g. you can move all of your music and video files but not Windows Media Player (or other programs for playing audio or video). Similarly you can move all of your images but not the program you view images with. You can also transfer all of your Word documents but not Word itself. etc, etc.
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thanks for comment. i stand corrected

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