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Adding Hard Drive Space to your Laptop

Adding Hard Drive Space to your Laptop
I'm sure that many of your laptops are full or nearly full and would like an easy way to add more hard drive space to your computer. I used to keep a USB drive at home for backups until recently, when I was forced to transfer over all of my music because my laptop's hard drive was full. This is when I decided to velcro my USB drive to the top of my laptop so I could travel without having to worry about a dangling hard drive.






 
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Step 1Materials

Materials
Materials:

+Laptop
+USB drive
+Velcro tape with adhesive backing
+Scissors
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33 comments
Oct 28, 2011. 2:33 AMbyovic says:
I went ballistic on my g4, soldered in a usb hub, added bluetooth dongle, wireless mouse dongle and after i removed my optical drive installed a 500gb external in its place. My leopard installation files were backed up and bootable from the internal hd with a modded version of leopard to stop the minimum requirements. All in all after everything i still could not watch a single youtube video. FML
Nov 14, 2011. 6:24 AMkbhasi says:
did you try mactubes
Jan 17, 2011. 7:47 PMMrLouque says:
I just made this, but didn't include the sweet cable holder, I didn't have enough Velcro left over. Love the ible, just what I was looking for.
Nov 5, 2010. 8:08 PMcad97 says:
Better then my idea of taping to the bottom, lol.
Feb 7, 2010. 9:25 AMmfayyaz says:
I was thinking for the same solution, great idea I must say.

Fayyaz
Oct 4, 2008. 7:30 AMsanity says:
Man this is great, really...... a variation of this could be, 1) Run a long USB extension cable into your pants. 2) Velcro the usb HDD around your ankle. 3) Impress your friends when you pull a usb cable our through your zipper, and instantly give them the software, music and video they so desire. When done. 4) spool the usb cable up into your pants and do up the zipper.
Feb 1, 2010. 8:38 PMPretty Idiot Productions says:
Awesome... absolutely Awesome!
Feb 20, 2009. 7:29 PMzomfibame says:
Haaaaa, haaaaa; that is a great idea.
Dec 26, 2008. 11:15 AMphant0m_sp00f3ra says:
no better you build some of those wifi antenas and tape it to the back so its parabolic angle is over your head , now that would be epic and enter running to the airport shouting yihad!
Dec 29, 2008. 11:32 AMburwuro says:
They would make YOU go through the Xray machine lol sir other than that dish on your head and that laptop do you have any metal on you? uhhh in my pants...... please take it out *ziperr goes down* DEAR GOD
Oct 30, 2010. 2:56 PMinforussle says:
Ahaha
I can strangely imagine that happening
Dec 8, 2009. 9:44 AMf1dd13r says:
Good idea, I 'm going to do this. My external Hdrive is much bigger than the internal one and will boot without the internal one in there but I got put off by having always to have it all seperate. Not anymore though!
Aug 29, 2009. 6:51 AMarvindhimalayan says:
what is this
Dec 30, 2008. 1:55 PMroboman01 says:
Is that an iBook G4?
Feb 22, 2009. 10:08 AMtinkerC says:
It's a 60 GB drive?
Feb 22, 2009. 10:08 AMtinkerC says:
The external one.
Feb 22, 2009. 2:04 PMtinkerC says:
What about the internal?
Sep 26, 2008. 5:00 PMcollard41 says:
that isnt really an instructable, anyone with common sense could think of it.
Oct 30, 2008. 11:13 PMrptbandgeek1707 says:
It is. Some of the stuff on here features nearly impossible things and explains them, while others simply provide cool ideas. This is one of those ideas.
Oct 3, 2008. 9:54 PMbleachworthy says:
Not me, I have an IQ equivalent to that of the 3M Velcro pads featured. Great idea!
Feb 2, 2009. 11:17 PMblakeredfield says:
I LOL'ed
Dec 26, 2008. 4:11 PMGreenDay says:
You have an IQ equivalent to Velcro? That's not something I'd admit to...
Feb 20, 2009. 7:27 PMzomfibame says:
ehh, Velcro is not the dumbest thing I've come in contact with.... then again I do work in retail; so I come in contact with all sorts of dumb, all day long. I will give you that most people are basically smart and nice, but every day I deal with at least one or two who prolly' wish they were as smart as Velcro. ... So, I give Much respect to all the people as smart as Velcro.
Sep 17, 2008. 10:39 PMjohnson_steve says:
Do you have any Supercool?
Sep 19, 2008. 11:13 AMjohnson_steve says:
I thought they broke up. I love that show I just got season 3.
Sep 18, 2008. 3:32 PMRugbySteve says:
That is such a freaking good idea!! I may have to do that now.
Sep 17, 2008. 7:47 PMScammah says:
Although not very pretty... It's a pretty good idea.

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