12-22-2014, 11:55 AM
Hello!
No need to kludge up your computer. Since you're not going to use 500GB all the time, just buy a small external 500GB USB drive to plug in as needed. That way, you can share the external with other PCs, if needed. (BTW, the last piece of computer equipment I kludged up was a Commodore 1541 floppy drive.)
It's strange, but an external drive is cheaper than an internal drive. As a result, I used to buy externals and take them out of the case, to use in a laptop or PC - until they started putting the USB interface and the drive controller on the same board.
If you already HAVE the bigger drive, then just buy a USB external case, and put it in THAT. Either way, you can either partition out 80GB for backup or use what I use (Redo Backup) to copy the 80GB drive to the 500GB drive in its entirety, since the 80GB has more than one partition...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
No need to kludge up your computer. Since you're not going to use 500GB all the time, just buy a small external 500GB USB drive to plug in as needed. That way, you can share the external with other PCs, if needed. (BTW, the last piece of computer equipment I kludged up was a Commodore 1541 floppy drive.)
It's strange, but an external drive is cheaper than an internal drive. As a result, I used to buy externals and take them out of the case, to use in a laptop or PC - until they started putting the USB interface and the drive controller on the same board.
If you already HAVE the bigger drive, then just buy a USB external case, and put it in THAT. Either way, you can either partition out 80GB for backup or use what I use (Redo Backup) to copy the 80GB drive to the 500GB drive in its entirety, since the 80GB has more than one partition...
73 DE N4RPS
Rob
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