how to increase storage or use external hard disk for microsoft office suite 365

[satgon]

hi

my note book hard disk is 30 gb , i m getting msg to free disk space constantly , i thought of  buying a external hard disk but 

1. will i will be able to use microsoft outlook thru external hard disk

2. if yes ,how to select path

thx satgon

[banhien]

@satgon

Sorry no Outlook and few other programs won't allow you to do that.  Please try

   https://www.howtogeek.com/125923/7-ways-to-free-up-hard-disk-space-on-windows/

You can move user's files and data to external HDD.

Regards.

[Rfulton01]

I have the same issue with my Daughters HP Steam 13. Here are the steps I took since the device is still under warentee,

1> The laptop ws already on Win10 so that already has a smalleer footprint.

-I used Disk cleanup to cleanup files and system files

2> Originally I purchased a 64Gb SD card SanDisk Extreme PRO. Now I have a 128Gb SD card same make

-Used Disk manager to initilize it

-Used Settings-Storage-change where new things are stored  to configure it's use

3>Next I deleted all the bloatware and rarely used programs from the laptop

4>Since the STream would not upgrade to 1709. I uninstalled Office365, CHrome, Adobe, suspended OneDrive and deleted the local shadow copy and so forth

5>Next Control panel-system-advanced settings-performance  changed the page file to 1gb and turned off system protection for C drive.... I rebooted and defraged

6>Finally 1709 would load

7>Once 1709 was loaded and settled. I reloaded the apps. Almost everything loads to the SD except 365 and Chrome.

8>I resigned Onedrive to the SD card

9>I pointed: downloads, Videos, photos, Documents to the SD card

10> Office defaults to the SD card as does all Chrome activity that I can control

The end result is that in 6 months I will likely so through this agian when 1803? is released. But for now she can function. Make sure you purchase the fastest hiughest quality SD card you can afford. I can not speak to your specific model. On the stream I could open it up, remove the WiFi card and install a PCie M2 drive if i she could make do with a USB WiFi card. But I am praying she will get a ProBook or Envy by then.... Bets of luck.. I may have forgotten a few tricks so hopefully others will chime in. Take extreme care in fiddling with the advanced features in System.

[satgon]

hi

thx

is it possible to use external 1TB  hard disk instead of  sdd card , as price is almost same ,

regards

satgon

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@Rfulton01 wrote:

I have the same issue with my Daughters HP Steam 13. Here are the steps I took since the device is still under warentee,

1> The laptop ws already on Win10 so that already has a smalleer footprint.

-I used Disk cleanup to cleanup files and system files

2> Originally I purchased a 64Gb SD card SanDisk Extreme PRO. Now I have a 128Gb SD card same make

-Used Disk manager to initilize it

-Used Settings-Storage-change where new things are stored  to configure it's use

3>Next I deleted all the bloatware and rarely used programs from the laptop

4>Since the STream would not upgrade to 1709. I uninstalled Office365, CHrome, Adobe, suspended OneDrive and deleted the local shadow copy and so forth

5>Next Control panel-system-advanced settings-performance  changed the page file to 1gb and turned off system protection for C drive.... I rebooted and defraged

6>Finally 1709 would load

7>Once 1709 was loaded and settled. I reloaded the apps. Almost everything loads to the SD except 365 and Chrome.

8>I resigned Onedrive to the SD card

9>I pointed: downloads, Videos, photos, Documents to the SD card

10> Office defaults to the SD card as does all Chrome activity that I can control

The end result is that in 6 months I will likely so through this agian when 1803? is released. But for now she can function. Make sure you purchase the fastest hiughest quality SD card you can afford. I can not speak to your specific model. On the stream I could open it up, remove the WiFi card and install a PCie M2 drive if i she could make do with a USB WiFi card. But I am praying she will get a ProBook or Envy by then.... Bets of luck.. I may have forgotten a few tricks so hopefully others will chime in. Take extreme care in fiddling with the advanced features in System.

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[mdklassen]

> my note book hard disk is 30 gb , i m getting msg to free disk space constantly ,

Windows has a built-in "Disk Cleanup" tool.  Run it.

Run it again, and choose "clean up system files". 

This will remove files have been superceded when Windows Update has replaced a system file.

Also, look in the 'C:\Windows\Installer' folder.

All the '.msi' and '.msp' files are the Windows Updates that have been applied, and thus will never need to be re-applied.

So, delete them.

On my Windows 7 desktop, those '.msp' files occupied: 2,549,686,272 bytes -- over 2 GB.

When you only have 32 GB, freeing-up 2 GB is a significant amount.

> i thought of  buying a external hard disk, but will I will be able to use microsoft outlook thru external hard disk.

Yes. 

When you install Office, you can direct it to install to the "drive-letter" assigned by Windows:

* 'C:' your 32GB disk-drive,

* 'D:' your CD/DVD optical device, if present,

* 'E:' your external disk-drive, if the CD/DVD is present.

Or, when configuring Outlook, you can tell Outlook to target a folder on that 'E:' drive for its 'PST' file.

That 'PST' file contains your E-mail folders, which can grow, over the years of being a "pack-rat" by keeping old E-mail messages.

Also, Outlook lets you "compact" the PST file, to remove the "dead" space within the file that occurs when you delete E-mail messages.  This action "shrinks" the size of the PST file.

You can "migrate" the folder containing your 'outlook.pst' file from the 'C:' drive onto the 'E:' drive.

Then, tell Outlook the new path to that folder.

[Rfulton01 · Accepted solution]

while I believe you can use an external SSD drive. I chose the SD card route for practicality. Since she is back and forth to college with this thing. If you puchase a major manufacturers drive. They will include some ghosting tool that will allow you to transfer the existing image to the SSD. This will aviod the clean load scenerio and getting everything reloaded as the new device will look like the C drive. Then you modify the boot device in the BIOS. Which I assume is possible in your model. Best of luck