Computer Help : How to Use External Hard Drives

Most external hard drives are used by plugging them into a computer or laptop with a USB connector. Copy data into an external hard drive to back up files with IT help from a software developer in this free video on using computers.

Expert: Dave Andrews
Contact: www.daveandrews.org
Bio: Dave Andrews is a software developer that holds a degree in computer science. Currently, he is employed by a government IT department.
Filmmaker: Tim Brown

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• computers
• computer software
• computer viruses
• laptops
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• hard drives

[MetalShin0bi]

My name is Dave Andrews and someday, I am gong to kill all of you.

[swimmerthon]

i want to use my external hardrive as my main memory source so when i save things like from itunes it saves it to my external automatically, can this be done if so how please,



[lrigydruh]

@swimmerthon Im having the exact same fackin problem right now..Did ya figure it out if ya can use it for a main memory source????? Any help would be great : )

[DrSuperMarioMan6464]

Short version: If you know how to use a flash drive, you can use an external hard drive. It's just like a jumbo flash drive. Good video.

[jimUkay]

thanks, now after I clean out my computer where do I place the files at?

[maryannemay]

Thank you very much,this was very easy to understand.

[Msnotoftheworld]

@masterminded78 yes, all you need to do is do a 'save as' and find your external hard drive and save it to there. it will probably be under My Computer

[VGCheater55]

@godtroung do you mean like taking all of your music from your computer and putting it on your external HDD but not copying and pasting it? If thats the case then you will still be able to use it as long as the external HDD is still connected to your computer and your computer can recognize the files. If you are talking about copying and pasting it to your external HDD then you will still be able to use it either way since all the files are located in the computer HDD and the external HDD