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Related Articles. Article Summary. Part 1. Determine the connection type for the hard drive and your computer. Virtually all external hard drives use a USB cable to connect to your computer, but you may find that your computer doesn't have a traditional rectangular USB port.
Buy an adapter if necessary. You can find these online or in some tech stores e. Plug one end of the external hard drive's cable into your computer. This will usually be the USB end of the cable. The USB connector should only fit one way, so don't force it if it doesn't fit; instead, rotate it degrees and try connecting it again. If you're using an adapter, first connect the end of the adapter that fits in your computer to your computer, then plug the end of the external hard drive's cable into the free end of the adapter.
Attach the other end of the cable to the external hard drive. Depending on the external hard drive, the cable may already be attached; if not, attach the free end of the cable to the port into which it fits on the external hard drive.
Format your hard drive if necessary. Depending on both the external hard drive and your computer's operating system, you may not be able to use your drive until you change its format to work with your computer. This is ideal if you want to use your hard drive with both Windows and Mac computers. Formatting an external hard drive will erase everything on it.
Part 2. This icon is used on wikiHow as fair use because it is being used to provide how-to instructions. Go to the folder where your files are. Using the left-hand panel of options, go to the folder where you have the files you want to copy to the external hard drive. For example, if your files are in the Documents folder, you would click Documents on the left to open the Documents folder. Highlight the files you want to copy.
To do so, click and drag your mouse cursor across the contents of the folder. In Windows, each user has their own Downloads folder within their home directory located in the C drive. As you download different things, the downloads folder gets crowded and takes up the precious hard drive space in the C drive. Filling up C drive limits the number of applications you can install and might even show low disk space warning.
Not to mention, when you re-install Windows or when you cannot boot into it, you might lose all the files in the Downloads folder. To avoid that, you can move the downloads folder to another drive in Windows This makes sure that you are not filling up the C drive with random downloads. Personally, moving the downloads folder to another drive is one of the first things I do after installing Windows. Before you can move downloads folder, you first have to create a new downloads folder in the new location.
The new location will be added to the properties window. You will be prompted whether you would like to move all the files from the old to new location.
I recommend you to move the files so that you can access all the files in the new location. How to transfer all the data to the new one? Why should we move files from one hard drive to another Windows 10? If you are running your computer on a small hard drive, then, it can run out of storage space quickly.
The easiest way for file transfer between 2 hard drives is to copy files from one hard drive and directly paste them to the other. However, this method can be only used on personal files like videos, photos, and music and a few apps. Before we start, you must check the corresponding hard drive of every partition by using Windows 10 inbuilt Disk Management.
Open the partition where the files you want to move are. Here, we take the Cdrive for example. Note : Pay attention to which disk the C drive belongs to. Step 5: Hit Apply and a Move Folder prompt will be popped out. You can hit Yes to move the entire Downloads folder from C drive to D drive in your Windows 10 computer. Step 2: Run the tool.
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