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Do i have to partition my hard drive to create space for a network drive?

by Guest66828  |  earlier

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here is my dilemma....i need to extract a file on pc a. pc a doesnt have enough room left on the hard drive on pc a to do it. im wondering if i have to partition the hard drive on pc b to make a network drive there i can point the file on pc a to extract to. the file on pc a are backups of my **** for pc b. i tried ftp'n it but it only copies 4 gb of the file then quits....

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  1. So you're trying to partition your HD so there would be room for a network driver.

    You can just go on ahead and do it.

    Look at your brand of computer

    Go on their website and click drivers and downloads

    Put in your serial code (on ur modem)

    There it should list drivers.

    Click ETHERNET

    Download

    Extract.

    DonE

    -Hope this helped


  2. FTP should be able to copy files of virtually unlimited size, I don't think that's your problem.  We regularly exchange files of 20-60 GB size over FTP.

    I assume also that pc b actually has ample space on the hard drive, and you are not actually running out of space.

    Could it be that one of the computers has a FAT32 file system, instead of NTFS?  That would limit the size of any file to 4 GB.

    It would not hurt to make a network share on pc b, and try just using drag and drop to copy the file you want.

  3. A network drive is a drive that is physically separate from your computer and connected to your computer over the network. Typically a network drive is located on a server or a network storage device.

    The easy answer for you, run down to the computer store, find the biggest (in terms of memory ) USB thumb you can afford and buy it. Move the files off to the thumb drive.

    The long term answer, get a network storage system and move your files there. But that costs some bucks and takes time to set up. The USB thumb drive will get you over your problem

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