Microsoft Skydrive as backup hard drive

[Lightning Reborn]

Hello,

When I upgraded to windows 8.1, my apps have not been opening, and long story short, I will probably need to refresh my pc. It is a laptop, and I don't want to spend 50+ bucks on an external HDD for storage of my 300-ish gb of steam games and other stuff, so I was wondering if I could use the SkyDrive on windows 8 as a harddrive type of thing to store all my files. Is there a limit to how much stuff you can put in it?

EDIT: I have figured out that it can hold like 10Gb but is there a way I can expand that size without paying any extra money?

 

[Lightning Reborn]

Also, sorry if this is in the incorrect section.

 

[nukemaster]

Skydrive offers 7gigabytes free(25 if you got it during an earlier promotion.)

Since most service providers also have slower uploads compared to downloads, you would be better letting steam reinstall games if needed vs uploading then downloading them again.

If you hard drive has space, you may be able to shrink the Windows partition and make another on after it to store files in while the refresh is done. Just do not mess with the start location of any of the partitions, just shrink the windows partition and make one to hold files.

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Start + R and type diskmgmt.msc
The shrink depends on how much you have and how much you want to save. Windows will limit the shrink amount. These images had been for a user who only needed to pass over 50 gigabytes of stuff. Copy over files to the new volume you make(for steam backing up games to that location may save some space.).