How to save onto an external harddrive?

i recently had only about 3gb of free space on my harddrive,so i decided to go out and buy a wd750gb external harddrive, ';my book'; its called,and so now i continued to download useing limewire,went into limewire went to options and changed the download save location from my old harddrive to my new external harddrive,but when it downloads it still saves it to the same place on my computer therefore takeing up the last bit of space on my computer and not putting it onto my new external harddrive,can somebody please please tell me what im doing wrong,i thought by changeing the save location in limewire options would do it but still no good still savein it to my old hadrrive,any sugestions ill be glad to get,thanks to everyone....How to save onto an external harddrive?
I agree with Eden's comment.



You might also want to relocate some of the larger files from your PC to the 750 in a temp folder. If you moved say 10Gig then defragged you will give yourself more room - Your PC will run faster and your downloads might even end up more stable. Look maybe for games directories that you still want but won't be playing for a while. So long as you copy each directory exactly as it appears then you can copy it back when you want the game. Just don't clean your Registry without ensuring the game is back in place or you might lose some of the games registry installation.



When you download large files they may come onto your system as many small files and will be scattered across your drive. That slows things down - so defrag frequently. Much rubbish advice is given about defrag by people who do not understand the technology [particularly young journalists] A full hard drive is BEGGING for defrags.

How to save onto an external harddrive?
Technically what you're doing should work. It's still not a good idea generally though since it'll keep accessing your external hard drive, they're not meant to be in constant use.



Either way, what I do is put things on the desktop or somewhere else, then move it to the external hard drive. This isn't so bad as long as you keep some space free and move instead of copy it.