Can I use an external hard drive with my laptop?

[ptr1959w]

Hi there,

Can I use an external hard drive of 1-2 TB for my laptop? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Mighty_Miro_WD · Accepted solution]

Hi @ptr1959w!

Yes, you can use an external drive on your laptop - just plug via any of the USB ports to your machine, partition and format it in Disk Management and you should be ready to go. Here's a KB article with the necessary steps you can follow to do this:

http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=ou7o9Q

Hope this helps and feel free to ask any questions you may have.

Cheers! 🙂

[ptr1959w]

Hi there,

I was wondering what hdd would you recommend for an portable external hdd? I'm looking for one that is between 1-2 TB.Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance and thanks for the help and replies..

[Mighty_Miro_WD]

You're always welcome! 🙂

For a portable external drive I can recommend WD Elements and WD My Passport Ultra. They both are very good and reliable drives, and the only difference between them is that the second one is hardware encrypted and password protected while the first one is not. As for the maximum capacity, WD Elements comes with maximum available storage space of 2TB while WD My Passport is up to 3TB. Here are some links you if want to take a look:

WD Elements - http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=tAZKVT
WD My Passport Ultra - http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=weoUgA

Cheers! 🙂