When selecting the drive you wish to install the OS on, simply select the external HDD.
Only if you copy them.
Of course it would. If you are copying your C Drive onto an external drive, then are copying it to an external drive, aren't you?
In our old computer I put a SEAGATE 500 gig External Hard Drive. The computer was windows XP Is it a working chance to use the external hard drive From The system i first installed it.
copy and paste it acts like an external hard drive
You can put all your information on a flash drive or an secure server as Sky Drive. You can also put it on an external drive then scan for viruses and remove the drive. When you want to see the information, just plug it back.
Put all important files in an external hard drive, delete all files on the computer, not the external drive, empty the recycle bin, copy drive to computer, then you're done.
yes you can plug it in and it should act as a normal hard drive under my computer(or where ever) then put your disk in and upload it when it asks you where to put it install on the hard drive that you pluged in make sure its not your internal hard drive if that doesn't work then remove your internal drive and use your external so u don't get mixed up and follow the onscreen instructions
To transfer iTunes from an external hard drive to a mac, simply go to finder and click on the external hard drive under devices on the left. Once that window opens you can either open the tracks or drag and drop them into one of the hard drive directories.
The volume label of an external hard drive refers to the string, which shows before the drive letter if you were to look at the drive using My Computer. For instance, if it is written External Drive:E, then the label is External Drive.
It depends on how large the files that you put on it are. I have a 2GB flash drive, and I put on it a ton of files. 16GB is a lot of capacity.
Open the external HD, find the file and drag it over to the computer and drop in the file you want it in.