? from old lady - I got this drive a couple of months ago & just plugged in - How do I move my pictures from "Pictures" to this drive?
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Depending on your Operating System Windows 7, 8, or XP you can run Backup and it will make a copy of your entire hard drive on the Western Digital External Hard Drive.To move selected file like Pictures.1. Open the WD 500 from My Computer.2. Right-click on an empty space and point to New and left click on Folder.3. Type in a name for the new folder My Pictures.4. Open your Pictures folder and hit Ctrl +A to select all files in the folder. (Control Key and the A key)5. right-click and then left click on copy.6. Open the My Pictures folder on the WD 500, right-click and left click on Paste.7. Your pictures will be copied to the WD 500 hard drive in My Pictures.http://garygail.com/remote.htm Depending on your Operating System Windows 7, 8, or XP you can run Backup and it will make a copy of your entire hard drive on the Western Digital External Hard Drive.To move selected file like Pictures.1. Open the WD 500 from My Computer.2. Right-click on an empty space and point to New and left click on Folder.3. Type in a name for the new folder My Pictures.4. Open your Pictures folder and hit Ctrl +A to select all files in the folder. (Control Key and the A key)5. right-click and then left click on copy.6. Open the My Pictures folder on the WD... » Read More Depending on your Operating System Windows 7, 8, or XP you can run Backup and it will make a copy of your entire hard drive on the Western Digital External Hard Drive.To move selected file like Pictures.1. Open the WD 500 from My Computer.2. Right-click on an empty space and point to New and left click on Folder.3. Type in a name for the new folder My Pictures.4. Open your Pictures folder and hit Ctrl +A to select all files in the folder. (Control Key and the A key)5. right-click and then left click on copy.6. Open the My Pictures folder on the WD 500, right-click and left click on Paste.7. Your pictures will be copied to the WD 500 hard drive in My Pictures.http://garygail.com/remote.htm « Show Less
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The easy way is copy and paste.1 go to your files (pictures videos music etc..)2 select your file right click on your mouse click copy3 go to your computer select your new hard drive example (disk D)4 right click on your mouse select paste 5 done.The other way is select your files and drag in the new hard drive.
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Here is an easy way: Go find your file called pictures, and copy it and past into your new drive. You can find your new drive by going to "computer" in your start menu and pull it up. It won't be C because that is your main drive.Good luck!
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Gerald, YES - It looks just like another Disk Drive. You just Move or Copy your JPG Photos to your C: Drive.A very inexpensive solution to the problem of reading outdated Memory Cards like Smart Media. Bob
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The best way I can answer your question is to provide this link to Kingston. I did not have any problems with install or moving the data to the new drive.Here is the link:http://www.kingston.com/us/ssd/v?ktc_campaign=US_SSD&gclid;=CjgKEAjwkpacBRCNlprWw-u-nBwSJACwHiw-5vJeySawQH5VVAJ-KktgFa8qBmE-9nNEPP1oqsYekvD_BwEJust copy it and paste it in your address bar.
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Yes. Plug in to a USB port. The driver will load. Open your file manager and move your files to the new drive.
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It depends what you mean by all files? Normally photo's documents etc should be on an exteranl drive so all you need to do is reload your programs and then connect the drive with your files. If you have them on your pc's hard drive just copy them to the zip and then move them back to your new pc or upgraded pc.
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Just to throw in my 2 cents here, the Disk Utility reformat mentioned above in Andrew's post is spot-on. The drive so far as been great to use. However, I'm running Mac 10.5.6 and it was immediately recognized when I first plugged it in: it mounted and Time Machine asked if I wanted to use it for backups...I did the reformatting anyway as the apps on board are no use to a Mac owner.BTW, the $99 price was unbelievable!Fingers crossed on reliability,Yikesboy
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connect it to a USB port. if you get prompted for an "action choice," select "open folder to view files" or something like that. if not, open explorer (Win) and access the drive manually. drag and drop files to/from it.
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Not sure about the pictures part, but most hard drives do advertise more storage than is available to the consumer. Hope you get the files!
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If I wanted to give this unit as a gift, already loaded with pictures that are now sitting on my computer, what do I need? Can I transfer the pictures to a memory card that I have purchased for the unit?
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I appreciate this very much! One of the comments on this hard drive had me wondering if I could hook it in with what I have, so thank you.
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Hi, Pamela:This is exactly what I want to do, putting movies on a USB flash drive. Can you please tell me exactly how you did it? Thanks very much.My email is : syang1@cox.net
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I personally found Actonis to be significantly less than useful. Was a poor purchase decision. As far as migration / upgrade of HDD size or types, I simply used windows back-up to create an image on my 3TB external Seagate HDD and a recovery DVD set. Then I did my drive swap, made sure my PC had the DVD as an alternate boot drive and then booted from the recovery DVDs. Piece of cake, albeit a lengthy process.
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Gerald, YES - It looks just like another Disk Drive. You just Move or Copy your JPG Photos to your C: Drive. A very inexpensive solution to the problem of reading outdated Memory Cards like Smart Media. Bob
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I had the same "issue" and decided to install an updated version of office. At my office, I'm moving files onto a stand alone drive so that I don't lose any information and plan to transfer it when I reload "7". Safest thing I can come up with. Sorry, wish I could help more! DonDon
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Plug it into a USB port and use it much like a thumb drive. I can give a better explanation if you tell me which operating system you use. On my wife's Windows 8 PC the system recognizes the drive and gives three options for what to do with it. I don't know if it will give the same options the first time you use it. I first used it with Windows XP. There I used "My Computer" to find the drive. Then I used "drag and drop" to move files to the WD drive. You can also use the backup and restore software to make back-ups from your main hard drive to the WD. I've also used it with Linux. If you need more help please tell me your operating system and what it says when you plug into the USB port. Plug it into a USB port and use it much like a thumb drive. I can give a better explanation if you tell me which operating system you use. On my wife's Windows 8 PC the system recognizes the drive and gives three options for what to do with it. I don't know if it will give the same options the first time you use it. I first used it with Windows XP. There I used "My Computer" to find the drive. Then I used "drag and drop" to move files to the WD drive. You can also use the backup and restore software to make back-ups from your main hard drive to the WD. I've also used it... » Read More Plug it into a USB port and use it much like a thumb drive. I can give a better explanation if you tell me which operating system you use. On my wife's Windows 8 PC the system recognizes the drive and gives three options for what to do with it. I don't know if it will give the same options the first time you use it. I first used it with Windows XP. There I used "My Computer" to find the drive. Then I used "drag and drop" to move files to the WD drive. You can also use the backup and restore software to make back-ups from your main hard drive to the WD. I've also used it with Linux. If you need more help please tell me your operating system and what it says when you plug into the USB port. « Show Less
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Yes - I bought this as a XMas gift to myself. I have Windows 7 and wanted to move all my pictures and songs to this new drive. Simply plug it in and windows will automatically recognize and you are good to start dragging your files over. So simple - no special software - hope this helps.
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I put mine in a NAS. The NAS auto-formatted it. Sounds like a bad drive. Try connecting to another system if you can. Try removing it from the case (which could defective) and re-connect.