Copying files to an external drive

This video shows you how to copy files (ie Music, Pictures, Videos, Documents) to an external hard drive or usb pen drive in Windows, using the send to menu option.

[@zeosofficial4680]

watching this in 2020 thinking "Oh my god that entire hard drive was only 1.86GB"

[@user-ic1rb1qq2x]

So easy to follow - clear and concise unlike the majority of you tube videos. So refreshing to hear an English voice that speaks slowly enough to take it all in. Fantastic. It is still useful in 2024.

[@cwtek1]

You're Welcome! If you haven't done so already please don't forget to subscribe to my KZbin Channel, its Free and easy to do so and you will find out about all my latest videos.

[@sundecld]

He had spotify 8 years ago? Damn ahead of his time

[@cwtek1]

hehe!

[@vibingsquirrel1163]

fax

[@Davyfb75]

Hardly had it about 15 years

[@Auden.]

I mean he’s making tutorials that’s ahead of the times back then and it’s actually helpful

[@dancinggirl75]

That was so very understandable. I just purchased an external drive to hold my crochet patterns and pictures of my work. Your video was so clear as to how to... Thanks again.

[@jeansheehan4286]

Thanks Chris. You are an excellent teacher, very clear and precise.

[@brendabrooks8904]

Very easy to understand and he has a nice clear voice,I'm of the older generation and have found this very helpful well done.

[@itouchkids1]

How old are u now😂

[@stacie1131]

@@itouchkids1 Brenda sounds like mid-40s. Maybe early 50s.

[@eriko8100]

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your clear and precise tutorial was by FAR the EASIEST to follow and comprehend. My 4 + hours of frustration is finally over.. Thank You Again!!

[@Jewlzlandia]

Thank you for taking the time to make, and for posting this tutorial. I have many photo folders to move. I had no idea how. Your voice is wonderful to listen to as well.

[@cwtek1]

+Jewlz Lane Thanks for your kind words, hope that it helped you out!

[@paullynn1369]

I didn't have a clue how to back up my photos and this was so helpful. I liked the way you slowly went from photos to hard drive and back. Visuals are so helpful. Thanks for making it easy to understand!

[@cwtek1]

Glad it helped

[@leisabelcourt4189]

Was excited to finally get my external hard drive only it wasn't prompting me what to do next, I had no idea. I googled the make of my external HD and your video popped up. Thank you for the instructions, very comprehensive, easy to follow!

[@gailmosley9837]

You explain so well in your step by step manner. I also like how you go back and check to make sure the function has completed the task. I appreciate this very much.

[@cwtek1]

No problem and thank you for your kind comments, I am glad that the video helped you!

[@johnjoehannon6082]

😊

[@chrisreed6185]

Finally ! Someone that gives clear and understandable instructions , Thanks .

[@MsJuliJune]

Thank you, very clearly explained, not like those who beat about the bush in a very confusing way...

[@Aileen106]

Dragging and dropping my C: drive pictures folder to a new external HD didn't work so I found this video. Thanks.

[@cwtek1]

Glad I could help!

[@ROXEESJAG]

Thank you so much for clear, easy & simple instructions on exactly how to transfer files & folders to an external hard drive!! Kudos, high-fives & thumbs-up on this video!! Awesome 🤗👍😀😀

[@cwtek1]

Roxana M. Alexander No problem glad it helped.

[@Ray-ku1sj]

You did a good job on this video. Easy to follow instructions.

[@whineyboopeep]

thank you ! You explained it so I could understand! BRAVO!

[@larrybrown3207]

followed your directions with ease. Thanks alot Chris.

[@cwtek1]

+Larry Brown That's great glad I could help!

[@gcleary4462]

ok, thats great Chris. Thank you for your reply. I'll have a go at that.

[@patriciaamundsen-ATUR]

Most helpful, uncomplicated information, deep gratitude

[@cwtek1]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Googie710]

Your video really made this operation easy for me. All the others left me with alot of questioins. Thanks alot.

[@bazlynton]

not everyone is computer savvy, this was very helpful to me. thank you.

[@cwtek1]

That's great glad it helped you.

[@lem4100]

I know this is an old video but I just found you. I don't know if you still read comments but you have no idea how thankful I am for it. I have been trying for a couple of weeks to upload files on my Notebook. I am not very computer literate so I don't understand a lot of what they are telling you to do. You made it so simple & it works perfectly. Once again thank you so much for this video. I have subscribed also.

[@cwtek1]

Thats great I am glad the video helped you. Thanks for your kind comments.

[@Zorriel]

Thank you I am think about restarting my laptop like brand new because its just ahh pop ups and all messed up and i want it like new but i wanted to keep some files. :)

[@fahamantegeka508]

Love your teaching

[@cwtek1]

Thank you!

[@blueskies386]

Nice and clear. Thank you.

[@janetlewis2051]

Thank you for explaining this and making it so easy!!!

[@angelarosales3267]

watching this help me a lot, thanks for sharing this with us!

[@cwtek1]

No problem I am glad the Video Helped!

[@tarquin4592]

Thanks Chris for your help. Much appreciated.

[@cwtek1]

Tarquin45 No problem glad it helped.

[@anrike]

THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!! YOUR EXPLANATIONS ARE SO CLEAR! THANK YOU!!😭❤

[@cwtek1]

No problem I am glad it helped!

[@Phoenix-xe6xc]

@@cwtek1 this man's still replying on this comment after 9 years legend🔥🔥

[@marina211980]

Very helpful video, Thank you!

[@philanna38]

Excellent vid!!

[@maggiestandley4332]

Very Clear- THANK YOU!!!!

[@Northenstar13]

Very helpful. Thanks.

[@jimshaw68]

Nice , simple , easy to understand instructions :)

[@cwtek1]

Thanks for your kind comment, glad it helped.

[@elainekingi8737]

Thank you sir, you made it easy and clear. God bless.

[@cwtek1]

Thank you glad it helped!

[@medusaspupil]

simple to understand,Thank U.

[@rustysmith3565]

Thanks very much, that's just what i needed to know.

[@trudioakley9489]

thanks, helpful and easy to understand for an older person!

[@cwtek1]

+Trudi Oakley Thanks for your kind comments, I'm glad it was easy to understand for you,

[@franklinmckinley1676]

this was made very easy, thank you

[@alickyellick1028]

Thanks Chris - Your directions was easy to follow. Al

[@cwtek1]

+Alick Yellick Glad it helped.

[@Jbearplays_offical]

12 years ago and still makes sense on a modern computer

[@cwtek1]

You're Welcome! If you haven't done so already please don't forget to subscribe to my KZbin Channel, its Free and easy to do so and you will find out about all my latest videos.

[@Zyn_Shi]

Thank you so much! I just brought a new USB because I needed to restart my computer (again) and I didn't want to loose my files and game data (...for the 5th time)

[@cwtek1]

That's great I hope it went well!

[@hi-sf2hh]

:) Very helpful. Straight to the point

[@cwtek1]

Thank you glad that it helped you!

[@emmanuelsolano1560]

very detailed and helpfull instructions thanks

[@cwtek1]

Unfortunately you will need to remove the duplicates manually, when copying files to the external drive, if it sees files already in there windows should warn you and should select Copy and Replace, rather than Copy, but keep both files.

[@marcsolomon5394]

so helpful thanks so much

[@cecillec2331]

Thank you very much for this video.

[@cwtek1]

No problem, I hope it helped!

[@miff1975]

Very helpful cheers.

[@canadarocks202]

This is very helpful in my situation. Do you know how hard it is to find a video that actually teaches you how to solve your problem? Very hard apparently. My laptop has been getting all fucked up and I needed to know how to move some of my documents and pictures onto a memory stick so I could put them in another computer so they won't get lost or deleted. I would die if they got deleted or I wouldn't be able to find or use them. You are a life saver. Thank you so much :)

[@213SEMPERFI]

Thanks for the help.

[@raymorse3259]

Thank you ,it was helpful.

[@cwtek1]

That's great glad it helped you!

[@chillchilli2671]

very cool, thanks!

[@cwtek1]

Glad you liked it!

[@theviolingeek]

My portable external does not give comprehensive instructions as expensive as it is. Thank you, sir for your help. P.s love the accent.

[@cwtek1]

I would NOT move programs to a portable hard drive as your PC will not know where to find them, also some programs are designed specifically to run from a drive that is always connected such as the C drive.

[@igiveup240]

very good thanks !

[@rebecagalvan8446]

thank you very much, very helpful. Love your accent!

[@cwtek1]

Thank you, good to hear. Glad it helped!

[@cosmotopper123]

Thank you thank you!

[@mauricemaynard7806]

Thanks for sharing this, does this work the same way with music...

[@neergyelsel]

Thank you for explaining it seems so easy. I'm in no way computer minded but still have to use on occasionally 🙃🙃😃

[@cwtek1]

That's great glad it helped!

[@pandaloverglasgow]

Very helpful.

[@vmorrison3159]

Thank you so much.

[@brandoncastle7309]

As far as software goes, for example, Microsoft Office or music production software such as FL Studio or Ableton, is it possible to install them to an external hard drive so I would be able to work from either my home desktop or my laptop on the go? It would be a lot easier and more fluid to be able to only have to deal with one copy of everything rather than two, but I'm not sure how the software licenses work and what they might prevent as far as using them on external hard drives goes.

[@ChaiSpiceOwl]

Thank you so much!

[@victorolale4676]

so great guys al stil av to qz you nxt time

[@roopamraj1138]

Very helpful

[@cwtek1]

Glad it helped

[@TheKaceynicolelebrun]

You can also hold ctrl in choosing two or more files

[@theripper7675]

awesome mate

[@SophiaAngelova]

i think you got it right is just my computer cuz it sucks and i hate it but im probably getting a new one and i will remeber that video so thank you sir

[@glesgasam]

very good thanks mate

[@mitchellbuckley7989]

Great, Great, Have to listen very carefully, because of the English Accent,have an English E-Mail friend, so I am use to it, and have a Cousin in Scotland, that can't understand a word he says, maybe because he works for Johnny Walker in Kilmarnock , that's where my mother was born, on father's side, had a Great,Great Uncle who was a major on the British Army who received the Victorian Cross, John Buckley. Thanks for the video, very well done, Perfect

[@mavicprotoe3959]

very helpfull infomation thanks

[@cwtek1]

No Problem Hope it Helped!

[@grimitology]

this comment isn't relevant and I'm not gay but dam your voice & accent is amazing in this video

[@cwtek1]

No problem I am glad the Video Helped!

[@munamido]

Many many thanks

[@cwtek1]

No problem I hope it helped!

[@elvinlewis4233]

Finally! Thank you.

[@cwtek1]

No Problem, glad it helped!

[@sabreenamaryharris4087]

Thank you very much, it was very easy

[@edisciullo]

Hi, I'm looking to move photos on various Cloud accounts (mainly Onedrive, some on Google) to an external hard drive so that I can have all my photos from over the years in one place and sort through them. Is there any easy way of doing this?

[@michaelkingdon3500]

Zoo clear easy, thanks. So much better than some American teen,,

[@cwtek1]

No problem, glad it helped!

[@amirboss7301]

thanks you helped a lot

[@cwtek1]

That's great, thanks for letting us know!

[@LunaMoonJune]

thank you, can't believe the hard drive that I bought did not come with a manual explaining how to use it.

[@3apples10001]

Thank you

[@cwtek1]

I am glad the video helped!

[@PharmacyTechLove]

I feel like I’m in class ❤️

[@cwtek1]

hehe!

[@wendypiddlesden9726]

Thank you - at long last - clear instructions, can you tell me how to

[@cwtek1]

There are several backup programs such as Easus To Do Backup which is a free download from download.com

[@gcleary4462]

hi Chris, thanks for the vid. have you got any videos on how to transfer files from Dropbox to an external hard drive? cheers!

[@cwtek1]

The principal should be exactly the same if you have the Dropbox app installed on the computer. Just go to the Dropbox folder and copy the files to your hard drive using the same method.

[@cwtek1]

At a guess the songs may be in a format or set at a bitrate your Bluray player and receiver cannot play.

[@dianeperkins9294]

Hi Chris .. Brilliant video. Very clear instructions. I am trying to backup all my embroidery files from my laptop onto a flash drive. They are mostly stored in downloads. There are probably about 500 designs. Instead of copying individually can I copy the entire download folder across to the flash drive ..?? Have liked and subscribed to your channel. Many thanks Diane

[@cwtek1]

Yes you can copy the whole folder across as long as you have the space on your flash drive, you can go into downloads and the hold down the CTRL key then tap A then let go of the CTRL key to select all the files in your download folder.

[@Mr.Shorts-Shorts]

Clear video to understand what your explaining 👍. I have a question, I hope you're still doing KZbin. I still see a copy of my files in my computer documents, I did what you did and still see the same copy in my documents, I have them in my external hard drive they're all the same. Do I have to delete my files from my computer documents when it's all in my external hard drive? Hope you or someone reply to me.

[@cwtek1]

The video shows you how to copy the files (i.e. make a copy on the external hard drive), you can delete the original files from My Documents, but if the external hard drive goes wrong then you could lose all these files.

[@farheentaj8716]

thanks alot SIR:

[@jteahankerry]

John Teahan Thank you

[@jjlife3150]

thx very helpful

[@cwtek1]

Glad it helped!

[@LordBluesman]

Chris, any ideas on this? I've been trying to send files from a Windows Vista Home Edition PC to an external hard drive. When I plug in the external hard drive, it shows up in Hard Disc drives on the D drive. It does not show up in devices with removable storage. When I right click on a file to send it to the external hard drive, this option does not show in the drop down menu. So I can't send it there.

[@cwtek1]

+LordBluesman Right Click the file or folder you want to send to the external hard disk drive, move your mouse to send to then click on the item in the list that has (D:) in its name. That should do it.

[@DREAMERL715]

very good Chris. But i have a question I reformatted my hard drive to FAT32 so that my bluray player and reciver could read the info. It sees the album and sthe song n song titles but wont play it can you tell me why?

[@garylawrence825]

how do you copy favorites to external hard drive in win vista?

[@jamielc3437]

Any tips for overcoming depression

[@herchd5880]

Hi, I have rare business program on older XP laptop and i want transfer it and use it on newer laptop with windows 7 OS installed. I lost installation setup CD of that business program, so how can i transfer and use that program from older to new laptop? Can i use external hard drive?

[@cwtek1]

Unfortunately, most programs need to be reinstalled from the Setup CD as it will probably want to put entries in the registry and install system files.

[@joyrenae1]

Hi Chris, Thanks a lot for your informative video. Your instructions worked like a charm. I am tech challenged, and you made life a bit easier for me. I want to know, if it's safe for me to delete the original files from my computer now that I have it on my external drive so I can have more space? And I'd like to know would the external drive be considered my back up. I first clicked on back up, but I don't think I had enough space. It seems as though my external drive only have 71 GB out of 931GB for back up storage. Well, at least that's the way I interpreted it. I thank you in advance for your time.

[@cwtek1]

Your external drive is just a likely to go wrong as your computer is, a backup is regarded as a 2nd copy of your important files. It's up to you if you want to delete the files from your computer to free up space, but please bear in mind if your external hard drive dies and you don't have copies of these files elsewhere they could be lost for good. If you do need to delete the files from your computer to free up space I would suggest purchasing a 2nd external hard drive to store a 2nd copy of these files.

[@joyrenae1]

I Thank you sooo much Cris for taking the time to respond to me. You are a charm. May your favor come back to you 10 folds over.

[@mtn_wolf4424]

thanks

[@specialized29er86]

21/12/17 - I have 100's of pictures on my old computer and am wondering can I copy the entire photos folder to a external hard drive. I'd hate to have to copy each one over one at a time.

[@cwtek1]

Yes you can copy a whole folder over.

[@swapfox90]

Bob Ross vibes.. I like it

[@cwtek1]

Haha! There's nothing like the calming voice of Bob Ross!