re: What size hard drive? Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 8:31 am Windows 7 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Lakeman (133 messages posted) To all: Thanks for the advise. I do have an external hard drive to use as a backup drive. I will buy the 320 GB. On Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 7:18 am, Objekt wrote: >Absolutley not. Windows 7 doesn't care how big your drive is, as long as it's big >enough for Windows 7 itself, which 320 GB definitely is. You will have a lot of >unused space, given that your needs were modest enough to not even fill an 80 GB >drive. > >That said, it is a Really Good Idea to get another, external hard drive for backup >purposes. Windows 7's built-in system backup feature is actually quite useful, >but it needs an external hard drive to store your backups. Backing up to a series >of DVD-Rs is possible, but slow, clunky, and error-prone. > > Written in response to: re: What size hard drive? (Objekt: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 7:18 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] What size hard drive? (Lakeman: Wed, Nov 18, 2009, 6:56 pm) re: What size hard drive? (Steve: Wed, Nov 18, 2009, 8:23 pm) re: What size hard drive? (Ricer46: Wed, Nov 18, 2009, 9:59 pm) re: What size hard drive? (Objekt: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 7:18 am) re: What size hard drive? (Lakeman: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 8:31 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 7 Discussion Forum