Re: I have a 100GB external hard drive.How do I use it?!

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You need an "internal" hard drive and not an "external" hard drive.
Please see the following:

How to copy the operating system from one drive to another drive using MaxBlast
https://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/popup_adp.php

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
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"Mr?" wrote:

| I have just bought a 100GB Maxtor external hard drive (maxtor is the brand).I
| plugged it into my computer (OS: Windows XP Home Edition) and the found new
| hardware pop up program thing automatically installed it as a mass storage
| device like it should have.I bought this because my current hdd (internal,
| the one that was in my pc when I bought it) which was drive c:/, ran out of
| disk space.Now I have this external hard drive but I don't know how to use it
| and my computer keeps telling me I am low on hard disk space.My friend said I
| might need to clone Windows XP to my new HDD.What does all this mean?!I am
| not some sort of computer wizz!!!(although everyone thinks that; only because
| they don't know how to even boot the PC...)
|
| HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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