External hard drives

Hi all,
my computer is getting clogged up with games, as i only have 80gb memory. If
i were to buy an external hard drive would it increase the computer memory or
just act as a huge removable disk? And would i be able to use the memory to
intall games on?

"Josh" wrote in message
...
Hi all,
my computer is getting clogged up with games, as i only have 80gb memory.
If
i were to buy an external hard drive would it increase the computer memory
or
just act as a huge removable disk? And would i be able to use the memory
to
intall games on?



time to hit google and look up some terms



memory and free space on your harddrive are two seperate things

"Josh" wrote in message
...
Hi all,
my computer is getting clogged up with games, as i only have 80gb memory.
If
i were to buy an external hard drive would it increase the computer memory
or
just act as a huge removable disk? And would i be able to use the memory
to
intall games on?


Josh:
While it's a desirable thing to have an external HDD available for
backup/storage purposes, what you really need to run your games is a larger
internal HDD. So consider purchasing a large-capacity hard drive and
possibly purchase a USB external enclosure to house your present 80 GB HDD.
If you purchase a retail boxed version of a HDD it will come with a disk
copying program which you can use to copy the contents of your present 80 GB
HDD to the new larger HDD. This program is also generally available for
download from the manufacturer's website.
Anna

"Josh" wrote in message
...
Hi all,
my computer is getting clogged up with games, as i only have 80gb memory.
If
i were to buy an external hard drive would it increase the computer memory
or
just act as a huge removable disk? And would i be able to use the memory
to
intall games on?

gb? You mean GB - gigabyte.
memory? You mean hard drive storage space.
Adding a hard drive does not increase potential memory.

Use of an external hard drive can only occur after windows has loaded the
appropriate driver for its connecting bus system. So, any call to that hard
drive may not work early on during the boot process.
--
Jonny

Josh wrote:
Hi all,
my computer is getting clogged up with games, as i only have 80gb memory. If
i were to buy an external hard drive would it increase the computer memory ...


No, a hard drive is not memory, although a portion of a hard drive's
capacity can be used as virtual memory.


.... or
just act as a huge removable disk?


Well, yes, as that is what an external drive is.


And would i be able to use the memory to
intall games on?

Software is not installed into memory, it must be installed onto a
storage device of some sort, such as a hard drive. As for installing
any games on an external hard drive, contact each games manufacturer to
see if installation to a removable external drive is supported. In many
cases, it won't be, because of licensing issues.


--

Bruce Chambers

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