Expand my storage

[bev.roy66]

My laptop doesn't have enough memory. Can I use my external hard drive to expand my memory?

 

[ElectrO_90]

Memory and Storage isn't the same.
What is it you need?
You can store anything on an external hard drive

 

[boju]

Can increase virtual memory but probably wont improve performance as hdd is much slower than physical ram but you can try.

https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/www.thewindowsclub.com/increase-page-file-size-virtual-memory-windows/amp

If your laptop has the ability to upgrade to more ram that would be most effective.

 

[4745454b]

Expand my storage...My laptop doesn't have enough memory. Can I use my external hard drive to expand my memory?

Do you see the issue? As mentioned above, you need to pick what the problem is. Hard drives/storage is where you store the stuff on your PC. RAM/memory is an area where your PC stores stuff while it works on things before being moved back to the hard drive. Are you running out of room to store stuff? Or is your PC saying it's running out of memory and to close programs?

If the problem is storing stuff then yes, move things to the external hard drive. If the problem is ram related, you need to buy new/more ram and install it.

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

If it's really RAM your referring to as opposed to storage space, then the only remedy is to add more RAM.


If, as the title suggests, it's more storage space you need, then you can indeed use an external HDD for that (documents, videos, pictures etc. but not to install applications on).


Storage space is not memory, please don't get the two confused.

 

[camieabz]

You might consider Readyboost with a flash drive, but it will depend on the hardware and config as to what advantages you will get.

 

[USAFRet]

You might consider Readyboost with a flash drive, but it will depend on the hardware and config as to what advantages you will get.

Given the complete lack of information we have from the OP, ReadyBoost is a useless recommendation.

 

[camieabz]

In your opinion. All you've done is offered criticism.

 

[USAFRet]

In your opinion. All you've done is offered criticism.

Do they need RAM?
Or hard drive space?

Completely unknown.

ReadyBoost may be a somewhat viable (if outdated) solution.
But premature until some actual details are known.

 

[camieabz]

Hence the caveats I included in my post.

 

[4745454b]

But why suggest he buy anything until we know what the problem is? I can suggest he buy a new board, 16GBs of ram, new CPU and a new 4TB drive. Way overkill, but it will fix all his problems. To suggest buying anything is just pointless.