Advice on installing CN onto an SD card.

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I have Garmin Basecamp and City Navigator Europe on my Laptop. I can plan all my routes and transfer from Laptop to Sat-Nav and vice-versa, no problem.

I also have a smaller Laptop. I have Basecamp installed on this also. If I connect my Sat-Nav to the laptop, I can do exactly what I can do with my larger Laptop.

But, I would also like to install CN to my smaller laptop, but unfortunately I run out of disk space (eMMC) which I cannot upgrade.

Is it possible to install CN onto an SD card so that I don’t run out of disk space on my smaller laptop? Failing that, if I was to purchase CN on an SD card and put that into my smaller laptop, would it work?
 
Assuming you're running Windows it's possible but perhaps a little convoluted. Firstly, if you haven't already, use the Windows disc cleanup to free as much space as possible on the smaller laptop. You could perhaps then use Garmin Express to download the maps to an SD card on it but be aware that Garmin Express will, without telling you, save an archive copy of the maps at C:\ProgramData\Garmin\CoreService\Downloads\Maps These folders are about 5.5 gigabytes per map edition. In your position I'd use GMTK from https://www.javawa.nl/gmtk_en.html to backup your maps and copy them to the smaller laptop's SD card. This assumes you can plug a USB stick (at least 8GB) into it at the same time as the SD card which must be possible as you can plug the Garmin into it.
 
do you have a card reader in the smaller laptop if so use that as a drive with the sd card,if not buy a usb card reader and use the card in that.
 
Thanks for all your replies. :fbthumb. Unfortunately, being a bit of a computer numpty, your collective knowledge far exceeds my computer understanding and ability. However, it has given food for thought and I'm working on it. :thumby:
 
hedre's a couple of articles on saving space under Windows 10. https://www.howtogeek.com/868748/how-to-disable-hibernation-on-windows-10/ is a suggestion that might help and this one https://www.howtogeek.com/348635/use-windows-10s-new-free-up-space-tool-to-clean-up-your-hard-drive/ is a method of freeing off space that I don't use as I'm used to the traditional method here https://www.howtogeek.com/825855/disk-cleanup-windows-10/ If you do try cleaning out old crap then tick to box for system files as they can gobble up space.
 


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