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student000
I am considering buying a portable external hard drive to put music, videos and games on, but i have heard that games may either run slowly or not at all due to problems with the regisry or something.
Also, can i run other programs such as audio editing programs or winrar etc.
I am ultimately trying to make room on my small, and slow internal hard drive on my windows xp computer.
Basically, will games be playable if they are already kinda slow on my interanal hard drive from an external portable hard drive.
Thanks for any help you could offer.
Answer
If the game program is located entirely on the portable drive, you are OK. If not, such things as registry settings can get in the way. How can you tell? Good luck in trying. Other than asking the game manufacturer, if they respond to your inquiry, there are few reliable sources. Trial and error is up to you. Small games may be worth trying. Large games that take too long to load in the first place would be really frustrating if they fail.
Videos and audio editing use standard file types and therefore are portable. You can use one editor on one PC and another on another PC and not have to worry about compatibility.
Games on the other hand are usually on the bleeding edge of technology and much is non-standard or proprietary. If you were a game manufacturer, would you tell how you did things to anyone while you are trying to stay in the forefront of gaming technology? So if you don't want to install it twice, think twice about installing it on the portable drive.
I have a second, larger internal drive, on my PC. If I upgrade to a new PC, it can change the operating system on the new primary drive, but all I have to do is move the second drive to the new machine and 90% of reloading the game is done.
Why not consider a second internal drive for the games and a writeable DVD player for the videos and audio editing. The DVD player takes longer to write, but you can move the files to the faster second drive for editing until you get it right and then let it burn to the DVD drive unattended.
If the game program is located entirely on the portable drive, you are OK. If not, such things as registry settings can get in the way. How can you tell? Good luck in trying. Other than asking the game manufacturer, if they respond to your inquiry, there are few reliable sources. Trial and error is up to you. Small games may be worth trying. Large games that take too long to load in the first place would be really frustrating if they fail.
Videos and audio editing use standard file types and therefore are portable. You can use one editor on one PC and another on another PC and not have to worry about compatibility.
Games on the other hand are usually on the bleeding edge of technology and much is non-standard or proprietary. If you were a game manufacturer, would you tell how you did things to anyone while you are trying to stay in the forefront of gaming technology? So if you don't want to install it twice, think twice about installing it on the portable drive.
I have a second, larger internal drive, on my PC. If I upgrade to a new PC, it can change the operating system on the new primary drive, but all I have to do is move the second drive to the new machine and 90% of reloading the game is done.
Why not consider a second internal drive for the games and a writeable DVD player for the videos and audio editing. The DVD player takes longer to write, but you can move the files to the faster second drive for editing until you get it right and then let it burn to the DVD drive unattended.
How to transfer a movie, lap to tower?
John V
I need to transfer a video file (10+gigs) from a laptop to a computer tower so I can edit it in the tower to master. Toshiba lap to Dell tower. It will be coming from the laptop to the Vegas Editing in the Dell. They both have USB. I'm having a brain freeze. I've done it with portable hard drives but not a laptop.
Answer
The easiest way to do this is to get a crossover network cable (or even a small network hub) and connect to two together using the network wizard. You can then just copy the file into the shared docs folder on the desktop.
Hope this helps
The easiest way to do this is to get a crossover network cable (or even a small network hub) and connect to two together using the network wizard. You can then just copy the file into the shared docs folder on the desktop.
Hope this helps
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