As was already suggested. Recommend a 2.5" external hard drive. 2.5" is laptop size, so most are self-powered by USB alone. You may have to monkey with your laptop to make it properly provide power...

It should not cause a problem to your laptop. If there is a problem, it will be that the external drive simply loses power. This is a window for dataloss, but otherwise things should be fine.

I...

The overall answer is "Yes".

The other answer is "I have no idea how Windows Vista handles extended/logical partitions." Hopefully someone with this experience in Windows will respond.

That observation is somewhat misleading.

Two drives can be setup in a RAID setting for mirroring (RAID1, I believe). All data is mirrored on both drives, so it would take 2x Xgb to store Xgb. (the...

Oook.

Hard drive = Storage
RAM = Memory

System Restore is like Health Insurance. It costs some money every month, but incase you ever need it you are glad you have it.

Or maybe it's that...

I actually just bought an external harddrive. I have not yet received it to tell you whether it is good or not.

Here is the NewEgg link:...

It's a notebook. Be sure to acquire a 2.5" IDE harddrive. (not SATA) Then it's a matter of finding the user manual and following those instructions to replace (or in this case install) the drive.
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