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Laura Richardson
Hello,
I have a new external hard drive that I would like to put some folders and files on. I’ve never used an external hard drive and have no clue what to do to accomplish this once I’ve plugged it into my computer.
I’m using Windows 10, Jaws 18 and Word 2016.
Could somebody please advise? …… Any help is greatly appreciated.
Laura
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Maria Campbell
Find your drive within the this pc icon. Then you can copy, or send files directly from pc to drive via the send-to application.
Maria Campbell lucky1inct@... All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. On 7/4/2019 10:42 AM, Laura Richardson
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Pat Byrne
What I've done is to paste my files or folders from wherever they live to the new external drive. When you open the drive there will probably be nothing listed unless there is some software from the drive manufacturer. So move what you want and you will have copies of what you transferred.
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Hope this helps. Pat Byrne P S The new drive will appear under the "c" and "d" drives and whatever else is listed and will have the next available letter designator.At 09:42 AM 7/4/2019, you wrote: Hello, |
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Laura Richardson
When I place a thumb drive into my computer I have to go to file explorer
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and find that drive (drive d) ...... Would this be the same route to find the external hard drive? Laura
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From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Pat Byrne Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2019 9:55 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: How to use external hard drive What I've done is to paste my files or folders from wherever they live to the new external drive. When you open the drive there will probably be nothing listed unless there is some software from the drive manufacturer. So move what you want and you will have copies of what you transferred. Hope this helps. Pat Byrne P S The new drive will appear under the "c" and "d" drives and whatever else is listed and will have the next available letter designator.At 09:42 AM 7/4/2019, you wrote: Hello, |
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Pat Byrne
Yes it would.
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Think of the hard drive as a mammoth thumb drive. PatAt 09:59 AM 7/4/2019, you wrote: When I place a thumb drive into my computer I have to go to file explorer |
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Maria Campbell
That works as well.
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Maria Campbell lucky1inct@... All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
On 7/4/2019 10:59 AM, Laura Richardson wrote:
When I place a thumb drive into my computer I have to go to file explorer |
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Laura Richardson
Thank you so much ...... I'll give this a try this afternoon.
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Laura
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From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Pat Byrne Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2019 10:04 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: How to use external hard drive Yes it would. Think of the hard drive as a mammoth thumb drive. PatAt 09:59 AM 7/4/2019, you wrote: When I place a thumb drive into my computer I have to go to filemanufacturer. So move what you want and you will have copies of what you transferred.computer.
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David & his pack of dogs <myguidedogis@...>
I go into this computer then usually hit ctr. Then, the end key. That takes
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me to the bottom of the list where generally external devices are. Then as mentioned after opening it, paste the contents from the other source into the ext. drive. As with computers, there are many ways to do things, some are complicated and some are easy. I watched a video on something pertaining to computers and the way the person showed how to do it was very complicated and round about. I figured out a quicker and much less complicated. In other words, a straighter route rather then going around the bush to get there.
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From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Pat Byrne Sent: July 4, 2019 8:04 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: How to use external hard drive Yes it would. Think of the hard drive as a mammoth thumb drive. PatAt 09:59 AM 7/4/2019, you wrote: When I place a thumb drive into my computer I have to go to filemanufacturer. So move what you want and you will have copies of what you transferred.computer.
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Laura Richardson
Thank you for the input. I'm not a "power user" of Jaws but hopefully with
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the suggestions I've been given on this list I'll be able to figure it out. Laura
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From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of David & his pack of dogs Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2019 10:18 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: How to use external hard drive I go into this computer then usually hit ctr. Then, the end key. That takes me to the bottom of the list where generally external devices are. Then as mentioned after opening it, paste the contents from the other source into the ext. drive. As with computers, there are many ways to do things, some are complicated and some are easy. I watched a video on something pertaining to computers and the way the person showed how to do it was very complicated and round about. I figured out a quicker and much less complicated. In other words, a straighter route rather then going around the bush to get there. -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Pat Byrne Sent: July 4, 2019 8:04 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: How to use external hard drive Yes it would. Think of the hard drive as a mammoth thumb drive. PatAt 09:59 AM 7/4/2019, you wrote: When I place a thumb drive into my computer I have to go to filemanufacturer. So move what you want and you will have copies of what you transferred.computer.
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Bill White <billwhite92701@...>
If you open Control Panel>AutoPlay, and cause removable drives to open with
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File Explorer, you don't even need to go to File Explorer to find the drive. It pops up the minute you insert the drive. Then you can find the folder into which you want to paste your files, and paste them from the clipboard. Just copy the files to the clipboard before inserting the thumb drive, then paste them when the drive pops up, and you open the folder where you want to paste the files. Bill White billwhite92701@...
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From: main@jfw.groups.io [mailto:main@jfw.groups.io] On Behalf Of Laura Richardson Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2019 7:59 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: How to use external hard drive When I place a thumb drive into my computer I have to go to file explorer and find that drive (drive d) ...... Would this be the same route to find the external hard drive? Laura -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Pat Byrne Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2019 9:55 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: How to use external hard drive What I've done is to paste my files or folders from wherever they live to the new external drive. When you open the drive there will probably be nothing listed unless there is some software from the drive manufacturer. So move what you want and you will have copies of what you transferred. Hope this helps. Pat Byrne P S The new drive will appear under the "c" and "d" drives and whatever else is listed and will have the next available letter designator.At 09:42 AM 7/4/2019, you wrote: Hello, |
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On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 10:42 AM, Laura Richardson wrote:
I have a new external hard drive that I would like to put some folders and files on. I’ve never used an external hard drive and have no clue what to do to accomplish this once I’ve plugged it into my computer.You've already received great advice so far. There's no real difference, from the end-user on the computer perspective, between an external HDD, SSD, or thumb drive. All will just show up in File Explorer as another drive on the system. I do have several suggestions, the first of which is to think about assigning a drive letter of your own choosing for an external HDD using Disk Management (which you can find via a search on "partitions" and will show up as the top result as "Create and format hard disk partitions." In this case you won't be doing either of the two things mentioned in the title. The reason I suggest this, and that I do it for myself, is that it makes it much easier to know that when you see something like drive V showing up in your File Explorer that you know exactly which drive you're dealing with. There are times when automatic drive letter assignment can get confusing as devices are inserted and removed. Second, since you're a Windows 10 user, if you are not using File History to keep a backup of your precious user data I suggest you do so. Third, if you don't currently have a full system image backup protocol in place, where you run said backup on a monthly basis, nuking the old backups immediately after the latest is taken (or at least all but the two most recent) consider doing that, too. -- Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763 Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner. ~ Eric Hoffer |
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Sharon
Wow, what is file history? Doing a backup from that? Sharon
From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Brian Vogel
On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 10:42 AM, Laura Richardson wrote:
You've already received great advice so far. There's no real difference, from the end-user on the computer perspective, between an external HDD, SSD, or thumb drive. All will just show up in File Explorer as another drive on the system. Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763 Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner. ~ Eric Hoffer |
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https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+use+File+History+Windows+10
-- Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 1809, Build 17763 Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner. ~ Eric Hoffer |
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JM Casey
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JAWS doesn't really come into it. This is all Windows stuff, available to everyone. Usually you will find a new external drive is assigned a drive letter logically/alphabetically based on how many drives are already attached/a part of your system. That isn't *always* the case, I find, but it is 99% of the time. So, if you know you have just a system hard drive (usually given the letter c:) and that your DVD drive (if you have one) has the letter "d:", when you plug in your external drive, it should be assigned the letter "e:". I always have autoplay turned off, so nothing really appears to happen when I plug in a drive, but it will show up in "this PC" as mentioned right beneath this message. I can also open the run box with windows key + r and then type in the drive letter to open it. For example, my drive letters currently go up to "i:". If I plug in one of my other externals, it becomes "j:". So, I type windows key + r, then "j:" (don't forget the colon", enter, and the drive opens. From there, you can create folders, move files around, copy stuff, delete stuff -- just like you would any other drive.
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From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Laura Richardson Sent: July 4, 2019 11:25 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: How to use external hard drive Thank you for the input. I'm not a "power user" of Jaws but hopefully with the suggestions I've been given on this list I'll be able to figure it out. Laura -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of David & his pack of dogs Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2019 10:18 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: How to use external hard drive I go into this computer then usually hit ctr. Then, the end key. That takes me to the bottom of the list where generally external devices are. Then as mentioned after opening it, paste the contents from the other source into the ext. drive. As with computers, there are many ways to do things, some are complicated and some are easy. I watched a video on something pertaining to computers and the way the person showed how to do it was very complicated and round about. I figured out a quicker and much less complicated. In other words, a straighter route rather then going around the bush to get there. -----Original Message----- From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Pat Byrne Sent: July 4, 2019 8:04 AM To: main@jfw.groups.io Subject: Re: How to use external hard drive Yes it would. Think of the hard drive as a mammoth thumb drive. PatAt 09:59 AM 7/4/2019, you wrote: When I place a thumb drive into my computer I have to go to filemanufacturer. So move what you want and you will have copies of what you transferred.computer.
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