Issue: Need 100G hard drive space and only have 50 G left.

[BarryG33]

Issue: I have approx 50G left on my hard drive. I want to load Final Fantasy, but it requires 100G hard drive space. If I purchase an external hard drive, will that work?

[old_geekster]

@BarryG33 , welcome to the Community.

What is the Product Number of the computer? I need this information to review the specifications of it. Please don't furnish the Serial # or other personal information. You can find the Product Number at the bottom of the page when you open HP Support Assistant.  Once I have this information I will be able to answer your question better.  It depends on the connectors on your AIO.

[WAWood]

@BarryG33 

Generally speaking, no. It depends on whether or not the game allows you to install the large gaming files to an external drive and they generally will not do that.  So, buying a drive is a risk that you will spend money on something that will not work.

IF this was mine, I would do two things:

First, I would contact the game vendor if they have a support forum and see what they say.  They might support using an external drive.

Second, I would run the utilities below to see if the combination frees up enough space on the drive:

http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3012-disk-cleanup-open-use-windows-10-a.html
http://winaero.com/blog/how-to-clean-up-winsxs-folder-in-windows-10/

Also, the community Win10 Forums has the following suggestions:
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/83441-free-up-drive-space-windows-10-a.html

Finally, there is a freeware app known as Wise Disk Cleaner. I use it every day to get rid of junk files: https://www.wisecleaner.com/wise-disk-cleaner.html

Good Luck

[itsmyname]

@BarryG33 -- If I purchase an external hard drive, will that work?

Maybe. 

How many Gbytes are used by your "Documents" and "Downloads" and "Pictures" folders?

Can you purchase an external disk-drive (or a large-capacity USB memory-stick), and move the contents of those folders onto the external device? That might free-up enough disk-space.

How many Gbytes are used by your "Recycle Bin"?

Have you run the "Disk Cleanup" utility within Windows, to remove extraneous files?

Probably, your best solution is to "clone" your current disk-drive onto a brand-new, larger-capacity, disk-drive (or SSD).