Seperate PC Hard Drive-How To Use?

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Hello,
I currently have an enourmous amount of media and othe leisure
programs that are installed on my computer that take up a huge amount
of space, this makes my computer really slow, especially after
downloading large quantities of music. I feel I can rid of this
problem by connecting an external hard drive through my usb port. The
problem is, I don't feel like spending hundreds of dollars on one.
Although, I have a seperate, perfectly fine, Windows ME tower that I
don't use and so I thought I could be able to connect that tower to
my current functioning computer (Windows XP) and use that as an
external hard drive to hold all of my media and some program files.
The issue is I don't know how to do this. Anyone with information on
this type of connection will be greatfully appriciated. Thank You! :D
 
music said:
Hello,
I currently have an enourmous amount of media and othe leisure
programs that are installed on my computer that take up a huge amount
of space, this makes my computer really slow, especially after
downloading large quantities of music. I feel I can rid of this
problem by connecting an external hard drive through my usb port.
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I can't imagine why you would think that.

The
problem is, I don't feel like spending hundreds of dollars on one.
Although, I have a seperate, perfectly fine, Windows ME tower that I
don't use and so I thought I could be able to connect that tower to
my current functioning computer (Windows XP) and use that as an
external hard drive to hold all of my media and some program files.
The issue is I don't know how to do this. Anyone with information on
this type of connection will be greatfully appriciated. Thank You! :D
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Network the two, share the drive on the ME machine, and assign it a
drive letter on the XP machine.
 
music man said:
I currently have an enourmous amount of media and othe
leisure programs that are installed on my computer that take
up a huge amount of space, this makes my computer really
slow, especially after downloading large quantities of music.
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Unlikely that its due to that.
I feel I can rid of this problem by connecting
an external hard drive through my usb port.
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Unlikely that that will help any.
The problem is, I don't feel like spending hundreds of dollars on one.
Although, I have a seperate, perfectly fine, Windows ME tower that
I don't use and so I thought I could be able to connect that tower to
my current functioning computer (Windows XP) and use that as an
external hard drive to hold all of my media and some program files.
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Yes, you can, but it wont make any difference either.
The issue is I don't know how to do this. Anyone with information
on this type of connection will be greatfully appriciated.
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Just connect the two systems using a network card
in each PC and a crossover cable between them.
 
music man said:
Hello,
I currently have an enourmous amount of media and othe leisure
programs that are installed on my computer that take up a huge amount
of space, this makes my computer really slow, especially after
downloading large quantities of music. I feel I can rid of this
problem by connecting an external hard drive through my usb port. The
problem is, I don't feel like spending hundreds of dollars on one.
Although, I have a seperate, perfectly fine, Windows ME tower that I
don't use and so I thought I could be able to connect that tower to
my current functioning computer (Windows XP) and use that as an
external hard drive to hold all of my media and some program files.
The issue is I don't know how to do this. Anyone with information on
this type of connection will be greatfully appriciated. Thank You! :D
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musicman:
The fact that your system contains a large amount of data that takes up a
large amount of disk space should not have an appreciable effect on the
speed performance of your computer. If your computer has the "slows", then
something else is at work here. Perhaps (as an example) you may have many
programs (that you may even be unaware of) working in the background. You
would be well-advised to "clean up" your computer as best you can, purging
unnecessary programs, perhaps upgrading your hardware, etc. etc.

But if you still feel you would need another HDD to store your data...

Since you have another PC that you're not using (and apparently don't intend
to use) why don't you simply remove a HDD from that machine and install it
in your present machine as a secondary HDD? Then you could use that HDD as a
storage facility to your heart's content. And you would be gaining a decided
speed advantage in doing so since copying/moving data to an internal HDD is
considerably faster that doing so with a USB device. Doesn't that make
sense?
Anna
 
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