Thanks. I just purchased an SD card for the first time to use as an extra hard drive for a Chromebook and I never would have figured out how to set it up without this video.
Haha - I'm not offended by "old age" since it beats the alternative. I try to be calm as even for me - who has been working on computers since 1983 - I get aggravated when some one is explaining something either at warp speed or simply leaving out crucial steps. Thanks so much for commenting! ~John
4KCC - hey john, can i just take a second to say thanks. i read all the comments and i noticed that you actually had a couple people reach out to you and you offered to help them out for free. i almost can't believe there's still people like you out there. just wanted you to hear that from me, thanks for all you do:) -barbie
I'm never too sure about the gentleman part (LOL) but thanks. As for views, hopefully, with nice people like you visiting my channel, they'll increase. ~John
Honestly glad I found this video… I have a gaming laptop that only has 250gb of storage, but planned on getting a 2tb storage SD to use for storing downloaded games.
Very clear explanation how to use sd card as a second hard drive . God bless you with good health and wisdom to continue helping the humanity . Thank you
Harry...I'm so glad you found my video easy to understand! Don't forget, age is just a number. My Dad who made it to 99 1/2 (may he RIP) never had a computer until he was in his 80s and he wrote checks online, sent greetings cards and did lots more. So, keep plugging away! ~John
Thank you so much for these easy to follow steps! The only thing I had to figure out on my own was the fact that I had to move each of my son's games to the SD Card file before they'd run again (since his laptop was out of storage). This video saved me a trip and some $$$ to a computer pro. You have no idea how much I appreciate it!
Lisa...I'm glad it helped. Games are in a field of their own. Some will play off the SD card and some won't. Congrats on figuring out that you had to move them. And, I'm glad you saved some money! ~John
this was one of the best tutorials I've ever seen, thank u so much, it's exactly what I've looking for. I tried many videos on my native language and even in English this tutorial is the best. I have one question, is possible install and run softwares in that SD storage?
Thank you for your very nice comment. I really appreciate it! When it comes to running software on the SD card, the answer is "It depends." You can't run Windows or Windows updates but some programs WILL run on the SD card. It really comes down to just trying it. ~John
@@4Keystone btw, is there a way to do the opposite process to this? Unmount the sd card? Just in case I purchase another SD card later and want to remove this one as hard drive? Or use it for another device
Thank you for your positive feedback! I appreciate it very much. Yes, I us an SD card as a hard drive on one of my own laptops so I'm sure you won't have any trouble! ~John
OMG. My PC has a sd card slot and I always wondered what was the point of it. This is absolutely the most useful information, and so clearly explained. Thank you!
@@phosphor6531 I really like helping people and I figure if they take the time to comment, I need to take the time to reply! Thanks for noticing! ~John
Thank you so much for helping us all, liberating our laptops and giving new life. as previouse comments quaity and a gentle old school approach to teaching. Thanks
@@4Keystone i need to know, not even with cloning tools,apps? like Aomei backupper, Macrium reflect, Acronis (i just saw these names in the net, do not know much about...)
@@josepeixoto3384 To the best of my knowledge, Windows will not run off the SD card even if you make it a hard drive like I show in this video. I don't see that cloning tools would make any difference. I'm making assumptions here as I haven't actually tried the process. ~John
This video thoroughly explains a lot of information I was curious about. the fact that your explanation was simple and easy to understand made your directions easy to follow. I am going to purchase a SD card for my laptop soon and mount it to my laptop following the instructions from this video. I do have one question. what is the difference between using a standard SD vs using a Micro SD?
Thanks for your comment. I'm sorry for the delay in answering. I was moving! Ugh! Anyway, a micro SD card is a physically smaller card. For many computers, you have to use an adaptor because they don't have mini ports. You might see what I mean by visiting amzn.to/465TfUd. ~John
very very informative video, so neat and easy to understand . is it okay to remove the SD card and insert it back again? Sometimes, i will need sd card slot to read/transfer my other sd card files. thanks!
Eric...Thank you for your nice comment! I'm glad you found my video easy to understand. As for your question about removing the SD card: Yes, you can remove it to insert another card to transfer data. The Library that you created will remain. However, if you had changed the storage areas like I showed near the end of the video, anything new you store while the original SD card is out will default to the original area. For instance, if you set all new documents to save on your SD card, any document you create while that SD card is not plugged in will default to c:\Users\[User Name]\Documents. You would then have to move those new documents to the SD card when you re-insert it. I hope I didn't make that sound too complicated! 😊 ~John
Hi - thanks for this. I may resort to this method of adding storage to my cheap HP Stream laptop, which for some reason is not recognizing internal SSD. It's weird, it has a PCIe slot and the m.2 fits perfectly. I think it's b/c there's a soldered emmc 64 gb unit, but I just wanted to add secondary storage.
There are a lot of things to consider when trying to use a m.2 in a PCIe slot. Which version is the PCIe? Is the m.2 a Sata or PCI hard drive? Will the motherboard and/or BIOS support what you are trying to do? If you were working with a tower, it's much easier as you can install adaptors to accomplish your goal. But, for your laptop, using a SD card as the hard drive is probably the easiest and least expensive route to go. ~John
Thanks for the excellent tutorial, John! I'm an amatuer, so here's an amatuer question. What size sd card would you recommend, or what would be the largest sd card you'd recommend? (I have 4gb of ram in my laptop right now. Hp Stream 14 w/Windows 11)
Thanks for your feedback. There are some considerations besides size. I would direct you to my blog post on SD Cards found here: www.4kcc.com/blog/2021/02/02/sd-card-info/ I would recommend 64GB or 128 GB. However, if the card reader on your device can read HD SD cards, you can go even higher. ~John
already known this information for more than a year, But the way you explain it forced me to continue watching Very clear, definite, and useful worth seeing, thank you very much, actually the reason I still use youtube is people like you.
I appreciate your apparent effort by the content, whether on the website or on the channel ** subscribed ( -_- )
Great question! As long as you're only using the SD card to store data and not any program installations, you can always copy the data to another drive then delete the data on the card to get your SD card space back. As far as the computer part, you can just undo what you set up to make the SD card a hard drive. If you ever get where you need to that and you have an issue, just send me a comment and I'll be happy to assist you! ~John
Thanks for your question! While technically it's possible to do what you're asking, I wouldn't recommend it. If you did that, it means you could never remove the SD card from your machine or the program or driver wouldn't work. Additionally, an SD card is more likely to get corrupted or fail when compared to your device's actual hard drive, you stand a higher chance of something going wrong.
Great question! You will not need to repeat the process if you re-insert the same SD card. The drive will re-appear in the Library you created. If you modified where new content is stored, that drive letter will still be there. ~John
This man put me on. Thank you so much for the help. As someone who grew up in the generation of technology and an avid gamer (with a computer tech for a dad) you still did a better job than us both explaining it to me. Thank you kindly 🙏 I have one question, if I take it out to add an external ssd will that corrupt the micro sd?
Thanks so much for your comment and question. Glad I could help. No, you won't corrupt the SD card if you take it out. You'll just lose the ability to automatcially save to it if you set up that option. (Sorry it has taken me so long to reply. I'm in the middle of moving my company to a new location. Grrrr Not a fun job!) ~John
very good information and explanation! appreciate your efforts. I would like to post a query here. when you use the SD card as internal storage for longer duration, have you faced any issues, except speed? (I understand the fact that the drive may be slower than SSDs)
Thanks for an excellent question. I haven't faced any long duration issues but, I actually take some steps to avoide them. Here's what I mean: SD cards can sometimes become corrupted for no apparent reason. With that in mind, at least once a year, I copy the data from the current SD drive to a new one. Then, I remove the older SD card and use the newer one. Again, I've never really had an issue but I take this step to avoid one. ~John
You can install some programs on the SD Card although it really is better to steer your data there and not programs. Ejecting the SD card simply removes accessibility to whatever you stored on it. You should not have to redo the process if you bring the card back...however, if you've added something else (external drive, for example) and the SD cards Drive letter has changed, then you'd basically have to redo the process. ~John
Thanks for taking the time to ask me your questions! I prefer either PNY (like this one: amzn.to/42K1mlN) or SanDisk (like this one: amzn.to/3X9E7QS). As for performance, may I suggest you read my blog post on SD cards? You'll find it here: www.4kcc.com/blog/2021/02/02/sd-card-info/. ~John
I understand the SD card cannot be used as a drive to run the OS. However, can it be used to store and run Program Files of other software (e.g. Office, PDF editor)? How to do that? BTW, I have a 11.6" Lenovo 120s that I like to use as a portable but most of the space on the installed 32GB SSD is taken up by Win10 OS and in the SD card slot I am using a SanDisk 128GB Extreme Plus card with a top read/write speed of 150/90. If you have any other suggestions to make a computer like this more useable, please add those. Thanks for the great tutorial!
Hi and thanks for your question. You can run programs off the SD card IF the program installer allows you to choose where to install it. Unfortunately, Office 365 and Office 2019 or 2022 do not allow you to install the program anywhere except on the drive that contains Windows. Still, for many other programs, if you check the install wizard carefully, they will often allow you to move the installation to a different drive. It's unfortunate that manufacturers, including Lenovo which I like alot, make computers with such small hard drives. Thje only other suggestions I would have is to store as much of your data online - like as in OneDrive or Dropbox or somewhere you dont' have to store all the data on the computer itself. ~John
Thanks. I just purchased an SD card for the first time to use as an extra hard drive for a Chromebook and I never would have figured out how to set it up without this video.
Glad I could help! ~John
This is called quality content. I was looking for one thing, and learned so many other things.
Thank you so much for your very nice comment! I always try to sneak in a little extra learning possibilities! LOL ~John
This is one of the best calming and useful old age person I've ever seen! Sorry for mentioning the "old age", but I like you, man!
Haha - I'm not offended by "old age" since it beats the alternative. I try to be calm as even for me - who has been working on computers since 1983 - I get aggravated when some one is explaining something either at warp speed or simply leaving out crucial steps. Thanks so much for commenting! ~John
are you 12 year old kid??? he is older person but not OLD AGE..jesus how small are you
@@4Keystone Good to know.
@@4Keystonedo you have any tutorial of merging SD card with C drive...
I want to increase my Chromebook storage ( with Window 10 Lite )16 GB to 32 GB
4KCC - hey john, can i just take a second to say thanks. i read all the comments and i noticed that you actually had a couple people reach out to you and you offered to help them out for free. i almost can't believe there's still people like you out there. just wanted you to hear that from me, thanks for all you do:) -barbie
Barbie - Thanks so much for your comment! Yes, I try to help people when I can - and for free, if possible. Thanks for noticing. ~John
@@4Keystone you are welcome. you make me smile:) -barbie
I’ve been looking for a tutorial for so long none of them worked until yours and it worked without any problems
Very glad to hear this tutorial helped you!! Thanks for your feedback, I really appreciate it. ~John
will this tutorial delete all your data?
I bloody love this bloke. He’s so calm
Haha. I appreciate your comment and I do try to remaim calm! Thanks for noticing. ~John
Sir, you are a gentleman and a scholar. You should have way more views.
I'm never too sure about the gentleman part (LOL) but thanks. As for views, hopefully, with nice people like you visiting my channel, they'll increase. ~John
Honestly glad I found this video… I have a gaming laptop that only has 250gb of storage, but planned on getting a 2tb storage SD to use for storing downloaded games.
I'm glad you found my video, too! Thanks for letting me know. ~John
Everything seems to be so easy when you know what to do and this man is just great ! Thank you !
Adam...Thanks so much for your comment. You made my day! ~John
Just the tutorial I’ve been looking for! Thanks
Thanks, Reggie! I'm glad it is helpful for you and thanks for the comment! ~John
Very clear explanation how to use sd card as a second hard drive .
God bless you with good health and wisdom to continue helping the humanity . Thank you
I'm glad you found my video helpful and thanks so much for your kind wishes! ~John
Just a wholesome and helpful ol lad. Respect.
Thanks! ~John
After searching for 2 hours I finally found a helpful video. Thanks
I'm so glad my video was helpful! Thanks for letting me know. ~John
For a guy that has just handed his problems off to his computer guy, this is informative and yes even an old guy like me can understand, thank you!
Harry...I'm so glad you found my video easy to understand! Don't forget, age is just a number. My Dad who made it to 99 1/2 (may he RIP) never had a computer until he was in his 80s and he wrote checks online, sent greetings cards and did lots more. So, keep plugging away! ~John
Thank you so much for these easy to follow steps! The only thing I had to figure out on my own was the fact that I had to move each of my son's games to the SD Card file before they'd run again (since his laptop was out of storage).
This video saved me a trip and some $$$ to a computer pro. You have no idea how much I appreciate it!
Lisa...I'm glad it helped. Games are in a field of their own. Some will play off the SD card and some won't. Congrats on figuring out that you had to move them. And, I'm glad you saved some money! ~John
The professional when it mixed with lead of windows specialist user you got this man
Thanks for your comment! ~John
I just did what I’ve been trying to do for a year, thank you. AMAZING!!
Monica...Sorry it took a year! But, glad my video helped you! ~John
Thanks so much for this tutorial!! It was easy to follow, really well produced and presented. 😊
Thank you for your kind words. Glad it helped! ~John
Awesome, Awesome, Awesome. Love it. Good, clean, straight to the point tutorial.
Thank you! I really appreciate your kind comments. ~John
I had the same problem..I used this tutorial and it worked!!!! thanks...you save me money and time
Great to hear! I love that my video helped you! Thanks for watching! ~John
i really appreciated this! saved me a bunch of time and had great examples.
I'm so glad to know we could help. Thanks for the feedback! ~John
Thank you so much! I’ve been trying to do this for the past hour lol and once I watched your video, it only took me like 3 seconds lmaoo
Great! I'm so glad this video helped you! Thanks for letting me know. ~John
this was one of the best tutorials I've ever seen, thank u so much, it's exactly what I've looking for. I tried many videos on my native language and even in English this tutorial is the best.
I have one question, is possible install and run softwares in that SD storage?
Thank you for your very nice comment. I really appreciate it! When it comes to running software on the SD card, the answer is "It depends." You can't run Windows or Windows updates but some programs WILL run on the SD card. It really comes down to just trying it. ~John
I recently purchased a laptop and this video was so helpful, since I was running out of strage after only two weeks! Thank you so much, sir!
You are more than welcome! I'm so glad it helped you/ ~John
@@4Keystone btw, is there a way to do the opposite process to this? Unmount the sd card? Just in case I purchase another SD card later and want to remove this one as hard drive? Or use it for another device
@@ledysarciniega5536 Yes. Simply removing the SD card will end the process. ~John
Great Ive been thinking if I can do this, This is a great tutorials btw.
Thank you for your positive feedback! I appreciate it very much. Yes, I us an SD card as a hard drive on one of my own laptops so I'm sure you won't have any trouble! ~John
Thank you so much, Sir!! I've been trying to do this for the last hour, thank you for explaining in simple terms 😂😂
You’re welcome! Thanks for letting me know it helped! ~John
Awesome! I just learned how to switch hard drive with sd card. Now I'm going for it!!
Glad to hear it! Thanks for letting me know. ~John
OMG. My PC has a sd card slot and I always wondered what was the point of it. This is absolutely the most useful information, and so clearly explained. Thank you!
Thanks for letting me know that my video was helpful! I appreciate it! ~John
I never knew about this, now I can play GTA V in peace, thank you!
You’re welcome! Play on!! 😄 ~John
@@4Keystone it's amazing how you replied to all 500 comments that's insane
@@phosphor6531 I really like helping people and I figure if they take the time to comment, I need to take the time to reply! Thanks for noticing! ~John
This is the exact info I was looking for. Thanks!
I'm so glad my video had what you were looking for! Thanks for letting me know. ~John
Excellent tutorial, learnt what I needed to know. Thanks
Thanks so much for your feedback. Im glad the video helped you! ~John
Thank you so much for helping us all, liberating our laptops and giving new life. as previouse comments quaity and a gentle old school approach to teaching. Thanks
My pleasure. And thank YOU for your very nice comment! ~John
Clear instructions, very informative! 🙏 thank you for this tutorial.
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for your nice comment! ~John
Thanks you so much. My laptop only had 256 gigs and i needed to expand it. You deserve more subs so i an subbing to u
Glad I could help and thanks for subscribing! ~John
will this tutorial delete all ur data?
Hello! Great video! Does this make it a fully integrated local HD that can be used for the operating system and other system components?
Thanks for your comment! Unfortunately, the SD card can't be used to store the OS, etc. At least, I haven't been able to make that work! LOL ~John
@@4Keystone i need to know, not even with cloning tools,apps? like Aomei backupper, Macrium reflect, Acronis
(i just saw these names in the net, do not know much about...)
@@josepeixoto3384 To the best of my knowledge, Windows will not run off the SD card even if you make it a hard drive like I show in this video. I don't see that cloning tools would make any difference. I'm making assumptions here as I haven't actually tried the process. ~John
Thank you so much you are the best! I’m so grateful I found you
Thank you so much for your nice comment! I'm glad my videos are helping! ~John
thank you so much i dont have to stress about space anymore
You're very welcome! I'm glad my video is useful for you! ~John
Thanks a lot, this method worked for me, for moving my onedrive folder to a usb flash drive, thanksss
Thanks so much for letting me know this worked for you. Always glad to hear it! 😀 ~John
THANK YOU SO MUCH NOW I CAN HAVE MORE SPACE
Awesome! ~ John
This was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you! Definitely happy to be a new subscriber.⭐️
Glad it helped! Thanks for letting me know! ~John
Excellent tutorial with clear straight forward directions. Great job!🎉 Thank you
Thank you so much for your comment! I'm glad you found it helpful. ~John
Thank you sir awesome stuff. Helping me out for storage on an HP stream.
Abel...So, glad to hear it helped! Thanks for your comment. ~John
Excellent, very clear and easy to execute
Thanks for your nice comment.. Glad it was easy to follow! ~John
This video was very helpful thank you very much
Glad it was helpful! And thanks for letting me know! ~John
This was really great, I was very happy because it was always a question for me, but you solved it so easily, thank you, good luck
Thanks for letting me know my video helped you! ~John
This video thoroughly explains a lot of information I was curious about. the fact that your explanation was simple and easy to understand made your directions easy to follow. I am going to purchase a SD card for my laptop soon and mount it to my laptop following the instructions from this video. I do have
one question. what is the difference between using a standard SD vs using a Micro SD?
Thanks for your comment. I'm sorry for the delay in answering. I was moving! Ugh! Anyway, a micro SD card is a physically smaller card. For many computers, you have to use an adaptor because they don't have mini ports. You might see what I mean by visiting amzn.to/465TfUd.
~John
This is it. Thanks sir, may God renew your strength. I have been crying for space for my laptop since. Thanks once again sir❤❤❤
You are more than welcome. Glad it helped! ~John
Thank you very much easy simple steps to follow 👊
You're welcome! I'm glad you found it helpful! ~John
Sir, this video is very very good. It helped me.
Glad to hear that! Thanks for letting me know! ~John
This answered exactly what I was looking for - a big thanks!
Great, glad it works for you. Thanks for letting me know. ~John
very very informative video, so neat and easy to understand
. is it okay to remove the SD card and insert it back again? Sometimes, i will need sd card slot to read/transfer my other sd card files. thanks!
Eric...Thank you for your nice comment! I'm glad you found my video easy to understand. As for your question about removing the SD card: Yes, you can remove it to insert another card to transfer data. The Library that you created will remain. However, if you had changed the storage areas like I showed near the end of the video, anything new you store while the original SD card is out will default to the original area. For instance, if you set all new documents to save on your SD card, any document you create while that SD card is not plugged in will default to c:\Users\[User Name]\Documents. You would then have to move those new documents to the SD card when you re-insert it.
I hope I didn't make that sound too complicated! 😊 ~John
This is very helpful and informative video tutorial. Thank you so much.
You're very welcome! Thanks so much for commenting! ~John
Excellent video and tutorial. Thank you Sir and God bless you!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for your comment! ~John
thankyou so much very helpfull keep up the good work,just what i was looking for
Glad it helped! Thanks for letting me know. ~John
there's lot of important thing I've just learn here...thanks
I’m glad you found it helpful. ~John
thanks to you i was able to save all my music fils on to my sd card in my pc so thank you
I'm so glad the video helped you! Thanks for letting me know. ~John
Very helpful, worked perfectly. Thank you
You're welcome! Thanks for letting me know. ~John
It worked perfectly.
Thanks from D. R. CONGO
Great! Thanks for letting me know. ~John
I wanted to say thank you for this Video!
You are more than welcome! :-) ~John
Hi - thanks for this. I may resort to this method of adding storage to my cheap HP Stream laptop, which for some reason is not recognizing internal SSD. It's weird, it has a PCIe slot and the m.2 fits perfectly. I think it's b/c there's a soldered emmc 64 gb unit, but I just wanted to add secondary storage.
There are a lot of things to consider when trying to use a m.2 in a PCIe slot. Which version is the PCIe? Is the m.2 a Sata or PCI hard drive? Will the motherboard and/or BIOS support what you are trying to do? If you were working with a tower, it's much easier as you can install adaptors to accomplish your goal. But, for your laptop, using a SD card as the hard drive is probably the easiest and least expensive route to go. ~John
Thanks for the excellent tutorial, John! I'm an amatuer, so here's an amatuer question. What size sd card would you recommend, or what would be the largest sd card you'd recommend?
(I have 4gb of ram in my laptop right now. Hp Stream 14 w/Windows 11)
Thanks for your feedback. There are some considerations besides size. I would direct you to my blog post on SD Cards found here: www.4kcc.com/blog/2021/02/02/sd-card-info/
I would recommend 64GB or 128 GB. However, if the card reader on your device can read HD SD cards, you can go even higher. ~John
Just what i was looking 4 - thanks
You are very welcome! Thanks for letting me know. ~John
Thx really help than mainstream channel
Thanks so much for your comment! ~John
This was a very helpful video thanks
Glad you found it helpful. Thanks so much for commenting! ~John
already known this information for more than a year, But the way you explain it forced me to continue watching
Very clear, definite, and useful worth seeing, thank you very much, actually the reason I still use youtube is people like you.
I appreciate your apparent effort by the content, whether on the website or on the channel ** subscribed ( -_- )
Thank you so much for your comment! ~John
thank you for your ancient knowledge and wisdom that I can only guess has been passed down through generations
You're welcome. It's why I have grey hair! ~John
Thank you! this was very helpful!
Glad to hear it. Thanks for letting me know! ~John
Thanks you so much! Now I can us my SD card for cloud sync
Glad I could help! Thanks for letting me know. ~John
Is it possible to reverse this process ? If i need back my sdcard to use for other purposes in future ?
Great question! As long as you're only using the SD card to store data and not any program installations, you can always copy the data to another drive then delete the data on the card to get your SD card space back. As far as the computer part, you can just undo what you set up to make the SD card a hard drive. If you ever get where you need to that and you have an issue, just send me a comment and I'll be happy to assist you! ~John
Can we install any application or drivers using sd card as the hard drive in computer
Thanks for your question! While technically it's possible to do what you're asking, I wouldn't recommend it. If you did that, it means you could never remove the SD card from your machine or the program or driver wouldn't work. Additionally, an SD card is more likely to get corrupted or fail when compared to your device's actual hard drive, you stand a higher chance of something going wrong.
Well explained video. Keep up the good work!
Thanks, will do! ~John
Thank you so very much sir ! This video helped me alot today as i followed it step by step
I'm delighted our video helped you! And, thanks for the positive feedback - I appreciate it! ~John
@@4KeystoneThank you! Have a HP Stream also. Not much storage space. Was able to follow everything you said step by step.
Total life saver ❤ thankyou so much!
You're very welcome. ~John
Great info helped me a lot
Thank you sir for saving my money and time
Happy to help and thanks for your nice comment! ~John
Thank you so much, learnt a lot.
Glad to hear that! Thanks for letting me know. ~John
Thank you so much saved me such a hassle with games
You're welcome. Glad to hear it! ~John
What will happen if I remove the sd card and insert it again? Do i need to repeat the whole process for it to become my hard drive?
Great question! You will not need to repeat the process if you re-insert the same SD card. The drive will re-appear in the Library you created. If you modified where new content is stored, that drive letter will still be there. ~John
This is great-I never knew this before!
Mark...Thanks for your comment! It's always good to discover something new, isn't it? :-) ~John
This man put me on. Thank you so much for the help. As someone who grew up in the generation of technology and an avid gamer (with a computer tech for a dad) you still did a better job than us both explaining it to me. Thank you kindly 🙏
I have one question, if I take it out to add an external ssd will that corrupt the micro sd?
Thanks so much for your comment and question. Glad I could help. No, you won't corrupt the SD card if you take it out. You'll just lose the ability to automatcially save to it if you set up that option. (Sorry it has taken me so long to reply. I'm in the middle of moving my company to a new location. Grrrr Not a fun job!) ~John
Thanks.... Coming back to this
You're welcome! ~John
Thank you very much it helped me with storage problem 👍
Glad it helped! Thanks for letting me know. ~John
Very nice tutorial Thanks
Thank you for your nice comment. ~John
Pretty fantastic John!
Many thanks! ~John
Thanks your video helped a lot.
Glad to hear this! Thanks for letting me know. ~John
Thanks man! Very useful & you are very knowledgeable! 🎉 🏆
Glad you think so. Thanks for letting me know you found it helpful. ~John
Thanks I was looking to do this as I can get sd cards cheap.
Glad to hear it! ~John
very good information and explanation! appreciate your efforts.
I would like to post a query here. when you use the SD card as internal storage for longer duration, have you faced any issues, except speed? (I understand the fact that the drive may be slower than SSDs)
Thanks for an excellent question. I haven't faced any long duration issues but, I actually take some steps to avoide them. Here's what I mean: SD cards can sometimes become corrupted for no apparent reason. With that in mind, at least once a year, I copy the data from the current SD drive to a new one. Then, I remove the older SD card and use the newer one. Again, I've never really had an issue but I take this step to avoid one. ~John
@@4Keystone that helps. I understand your point. In fact I was looking for some real wisdom like this.
@@kpofcochin Glad I could help! ~John
Super so nice 👍
Lots info I do like it
I will use SD as a memory
Many thanks
Joo
London Uk 🇬🇧
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for commenting! ~John
Thanks for help easy to follow and well explained.
Thank you for your comment! Glad you found it easy to follow. ~John
Brilliant tha k you just what I was looking for!
Glad you found it! Thanks for letting me know! ~John
Amazing! Thank you so much! It helped me!
So glad it helped you! Thanks for your coment. ~John
Can we install any programs on the new storage drive ? also what effect does ejecting the drive have ? do we havve to do this process everytime ?
You can install some programs on the SD Card although it really is better to steer your data there and not programs. Ejecting the SD card simply removes accessibility to whatever you stored on it. You should not have to redo the process if you bring the card back...however, if you've added something else (external drive, for example) and the SD cards Drive letter has changed, then you'd basically have to redo the process. ~John
@@4Keystone got it , thanks for taking care to respond to the comments appreciate it and all the help !
Any recommendation on sd card brand or type for best performance?
Thanks for taking the time to ask me your questions! I prefer either PNY (like this one: amzn.to/42K1mlN) or SanDisk (like this one: amzn.to/3X9E7QS). As for performance, may I suggest you read my blog post on SD cards? You'll find it here: www.4kcc.com/blog/2021/02/02/sd-card-info/. ~John
My 2 centz Big THANK YOU!! My laptop was singing "I am a REAL COMPUTER NOW!!!
I'm so glad to hear it! Thanks for letting me know. ~John
This was very helpful
Glad to hear that! Thanks for letting me know. ~John
Awesome great and easy to use information thank you
Thank you for your nice comment! Appreciate it! ~John
I understand the SD card cannot be used as a drive to run the OS. However, can it be used to store and run Program Files of other software (e.g. Office, PDF editor)? How to do that? BTW, I have a 11.6" Lenovo 120s that I like to use as a portable but most of the space on the installed 32GB SSD is taken up by Win10 OS and in the SD card slot I am using a SanDisk 128GB Extreme Plus card with a top read/write speed of 150/90. If you have any other suggestions to make a computer like this more useable, please add those.
Thanks for the great tutorial!
Hi and thanks for your question. You can run programs off the SD card IF the program installer allows you to choose where to install it. Unfortunately, Office 365 and Office 2019 or 2022 do not allow you to install the program anywhere except on the drive that contains Windows. Still, for many other programs, if you check the install wizard carefully, they will often allow you to move the installation to a different drive.
It's unfortunate that manufacturers, including Lenovo which I like alot, make computers with such small hard drives. Thje only other suggestions I would have is to store as much of your data online - like as in OneDrive or Dropbox or somewhere you dont' have to store all the data on the computer itself. ~John
Thank you very much loved the video. Great teacher
You are very welcome! And thank you for the nice compliment. ~John
thank you for the knowledge
My pleasure! Thanks for commenting. ~John
Thanks for that Tutorial!
It's very helpful! God bless to you pap's
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for letting me know! ~John