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When its hooked up and operating properly, your external hard drive should show up as a drive letter under "my computer" just like your internal drive. You can save to it just as you would an internal drive.
If the drive is not showing up as i just described, it may not be partitioned and formatted. You can investigate this by going into control panel > administrative tools > computer management and clicking on disk management in the left pane. Once you've done this, the lower-right pane will show all your hard disks, scroll through and, if you find your external hard disk in there listed as "unallocated" you can partition and format it by right-clicking on it and choosing the appropriate dialog options.
NOTE: be very careful when messing around with disk management, one of the disks in that list will be your primary hard disk and erasing THAT will destroy your operating system. Be sure you are formatting the right disk.
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What does an external hardrive do?
An external hard drive is a device similar to your computer's hard drive. The difference is that it is portable. You can save files on it and it can be connected to most other computers.
What is external hard drive used for?
to save failes and data in it
Should you save your files to your computer or to your external hard drive?
according to me, do the both
What is the best Mac external hard drive according to PCMag?
According to PCMag, the best external hard drive that you can purchase for a Mac is the Seagate Backup Plus Portable 1TB HDD for $129. This HDD has great reviews and a USM connector and can automatically save your social media photos as well as having a sleek finish that will match your Mac.
How do you avoid losing work on a computer?
Save it often and back it up on an external hard-drive.
Is a xbox 360 with out a hard drive good or not?
Unless you have some sort of external memory option, you need at least a small hard drive to save your games.
How do you get old photos on to my computer?
First you scan the pictures and save them onto a external memory drive or a jump drive. After this is done you can take the pictures out of the portable memory drive and transfer them onto your computer.
Can you add another hard drive if your PS3 hard drive is loaded?
No, you can't have 2 at once on a Ps3 but you can backup your saves and media to a memory stick or Fat32 formatted external drive and use a larger drive, for instructions go on youtube: . Or, you could just use an external Hard Disk Drive and save stuff there.
What is an external haedisc?
The external haedisc is actually spelled external hard disc. An external hard disc allows an individual to hook it to their computer or information source and save the information that is important on the external hard disc drive and not risk loosing any if something happens to the main hard disc source.
Can you put information on a external hard drive without it being copied to the hard drive in your computer?
Yes. Choose to save documents you're working on to the external drive, and they will not be saved on your internal drive. Be careful, though, Microsoft Office does cache files locally, in case of a power failure or crash to save your progress, and these may possibly be recovered from an internal drive. Your external drive should be given a drive letter, D:, E:, F:, etc.
How can one save hard drive data?
There are a number of ways one can save hard drive date. One can back up hard drive data on an external hard drive or it can be stored on cloud storage such as Google Drive. If one's computer is damaged then files from the hard drive can be recovered and saved using a USB universal drive adapter. This will allow one to read the files on another PC and then save them to that PC or transfer to a different device.
What exactly is a cloud database?
A cloud database can be explained as a portable external hard drive, but instead of a physical object, all of your files and documents are saved over the Internet. Once you save your documents, you can then access them from any location through the Internet.
