Can this be made into an external hard drive?
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You can make any hard drive into an external drive with the right equipment. This is of course a 2.5 inch hard drive so you need to make sure the hardware you purchase is compatible. Honestly I would suggest something with much higher capacity for an external drive at least a terabyte. I use these for operating system install and the major programs.
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This will work fine just like any other external USB drive. If you don't want it formatted as NTFS, it can be easily formatted as FAT32 or whatever your need is.
960428
No. but one way that I've done this is to use an inexpensive external hard drive enclosure. You want to make sure that the one you buy will work with your drive. You just slip your hard drive into the enclosure and attach the usb cable from the enclosure to your computer. The drive will show up on your computer and then you can transfer files.
366627
I suppose you could, but it wouldn't be very fast. It would be better to use a flash drive.
103520
Yes, treat it as a standard removable usb drive, don't run the "backup" software.
749647
Yes it will work. If using an external hard drive, you may have to format to enfat
1029147
Not unless you have the right software to only read the hard drive. This device only turns the Hard Drive into an External Device. It has no options whatsoever.
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Yes, you can. Most general external drives should do. I have an LG. HP also makes them.
1770072
Sure you can, you just have to buy an enclosure for it. But why not just buy an external HD directly? I think it's a bit of waste to use this drive as external storage.
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No, it's for a PC (Desktop Computer) - you need a 2.5 inch drive to install it in a laptop - I would not recommend using it as an external hdd - if you want it for that application I would recommend that you buy an external/portable hdd, it will be safer and work better. Good Luck! RH
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No it must be a digital storage drive like a hard drive, usb,or SD card of some sort
796105
Yes, but it has to be formatted to exFAT if you want the files to be over 4gbs. (NTFS also for Windows)
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Probably won't be able to. As others have said you can try searching online and loading onto a USB device or simply installing directly from the web if that's possible. There are several inexpensive external DVD / CD-Roms out there that will do the job nicely. And the good news is the external drive can be used on other PCs/laptops.
577668
Yes, you could format it as a NTFS or FAT32. Mac (as well as Windows obviously) supports both.
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Yes. It is an external hard drive. It will behave as another drive on your computer.
960198
Roger, you can transfer the existing files to an extrnal drive via USB. I don't know if you can record directly to an external drive.
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You can install applications to the external hard drive. But you most likely run into issues. It is not recommended.