To connect an external hard drive it would, but that would be the only reason to connect USB.
Yes, you can. You need to go to a electronics shop to purchase the external drive and cord. You will need to connect the cord to your internet box and stream to your external drive onto your laptop.
You would have to get a CD drive which fits in your laptop or get an external USB one which you can connect to it
It saves hard disk space.
UPDATE: do you all think this would work to connect the external hard drive to a router that doesn't have a USB port (like the one i have) http://www.walmart.com/ip/TRENDnet-TU-ET100C-USB-to-Fast-Ethernet-Adapter/13214825?wmlspartner=GPA&sourceid=44444444440281732250
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 general, there is no reason to have more than one partition on an external hard drive. There are some specific cases where it might be desirable but you would know if you had a requirement like that.
There's no reason why you should't unplug it. If the computer is relatively stable (ie not being moved around as a laptop would be) - you can simply leave devices connected to it, even when not in use.
The fastest type of external hard drive would be a external 3.0 USB hard drive.
There are external floppy drives that can be attached to a computer via the parallel port. I am unaware of any standalone adapter that would allow you to adapt an existing drive.
The Vita doesn't have a PC's operating system and can't access an external drive/storage - it just doesn't know what to do with it. You would have to connect the Vita to a PC or laptop and copy the music to that, and then copy it from there to the USB drive.
I would like to have an external hard drive to store our recorded videos. Is that possible?
Would I need an external hard drive case? I opened up the Gateway and there are no cords that would be able to connect to the hard drive from the Dell, unlike someone had told me. Though I understand because they are two different computers. Answer: Shut down the computer. and then open cabinet and remove hard drive power cable and data cable. and screw. and then install new hard drive.