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Using an external hard drive for a local drive

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by malmquiste

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I have an HP Pavilion N5310 laptop running XP OS. It has a 10 G hard drive as my local C drive and I am using an external Maxtor 100 G hard drive for overload. I continually run out of space on my local dive C so I would like (if possible) to use my 100 G hard drive as my Local drive. How do I do this? At this time I can not afford a new computer and so this is my only alternative. Can someone please help me?

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by oh smeg

You need the ability to Boot from a USB Device and that HP doesn't support that option in BIOS. You may be able to Flash the BIOS and update it somewhat but I don't think that the latest available BIOS has the ability to Boot from an External USB Drive.

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