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You'd access the external drive like any other drive. Just go to My Computer or Computer and find the drive there. Otherwise, if you know its letter or physical address, or if you can drill your way to it within a program, you can access it.
If you cannot find the new external drive, it is possible that it has no valid partition table. In that case, try a partition manager or Windows own disk manager that can be accessed through the administrative tools.
One thing to keep in mind is that older versions of Windows such as Windows 98 may require drivers to be able to use external drives. Newer versions have the necessary drivers.
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How do you access your external hard drive and the files on it with command prompt?
In the same way how you access local disks, you just need to know an external drive name.
How does an exterior hard drive work?
Think of an external hard drive like a normal hard drive working outside your computer, they work very much in the same way. Normally (unless you are using a SCSI hard drive), they can be connected to your computer via a Firewire or USB connection. If you have a key-drive(aka USB memory stick),they work like a miniature external hard drive in the sense that they store date in an external format; an external hard drive is just like a large key-drive. With both a keydrive and an external hard drive, you simply connect it to your computer, and access its files. When you want to access your internal hard drive, you go to MyComputer and then select the C: drive; The external hard drive is a similar process, you select it's icon (located either on the desktop or MyComputer) and then you can access its files like a normal hard drive. You can drag files out of it onto your desktop, or alternatively, drag files into it to transfer files from your computer.
How does an external hard drive work?
Think of an external hard drive like a normal hard drive working outside your computer, they work very much in the same way. Normally (unless you are using a SCSI, PATA, or eSATA hard drive), they can be connected to your computer via a Firewire or USB connection. If you have a key-drive (aka USB memory stick), they work like a miniature external hard drive in the sense that they store date in an external format; an external hard drive is just like a large key-drive. With both a key-drive and an external hard drive, you simply connect it to your computer, and access its files. When you want to access your internal hard drive, you go to My Computer and then select the C: drive; The external hard drive is a similar process, you select it's icon (located either on the desktop or My Computer) and then you can access its files like a normal hard drive. You can drag files out of it onto your desktop, or alternatively, drag files into it to transfer files from your computer.
What is the difference between hard drive enclosures and portable hard drives?
A portable hard drive is just an external hard drive with set memory, for example 320GB, A hard drive enclosure is if you have an internal you wish to use as an external, you simply connect it to the enclosure and use it. However permissions etc have to be overwritten to access the data, so if your not very technical, best just buy an external
What are the advantages of having a firewire external hard drive?
A fire wire external hard drive can help your computer to run very quickly since the power from within is very strong. The external hard drive always allows easy access to any problems and allows tons of data to be stored.
What's the fastest type of external hard drive?
The fastest type of external hard drive would be a external 3.0 USB hard drive.
How do you access information on an external hard drive?
You will need to connect it to a computer to read what is on the external drive. As a precaution, always scan external storage devices with anti-virus programs before opening any content on a drive.
How do you back up my hard drive?
You get another memory storage device, such as an external hard drive, and you copy everything on your hard drive onto the external hard drive, and keep it safe. That way, if your hard drive crashes, then you can take it out, and plug your external hard drive in, and work from that.
Unable to access external hard drive after doing a system restore?
uninstall then re-install the driver.
How do you completely clear your external hard drive?
You can completely clear your external hard drive by formatting it.
How do you copy your hard drive to an external hard drive?
---- # go to "my computer" # browse to your external hard drive # then open another "my computer" window # drag and drop the file(s) you want to the window displaying the external hard drive. ----
Where can one get repair services for an external hard drive?
you can go to the service center of your external hard drive.
