Is there a easy way to transfer my files to an external hard drive?

[Derek]

I just purchased an external hard drive to make more room
on my local c: drive. Is there a wizard in Win XP Pro I
can use to easily manage this transfer process? The
files I want to transfer to my new external drive are
mostly music, photo, Word/Excel/PowerPoint/PDF files.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

 

[Guest]

You can use Windows Explorer and highlight the specific files you want to transfer by "drag and drop" or "copy and paste" procedures from "C" drive to "?" drive. To highlight many files at once, click the first file and hold down the Shift key and click the last one, that will highlight every file in between. To be selective, hold down the Ctrl key and click each file one at a time to highlight. Rightclick any highlighted file and select copy and go to the external drive letter, rightclick it and select paste. There is no limit on the number of files you can transfer, you can do whole directories at one time.

 

[CWatters]

I'm not quite sure why you really need a wizard? You can move files and
whole folders easily using a single cut and paste or copy and paste
operation.

example:

Open My Documents
Select the file (or files and/or folders plural)
Right click on one and select copy
Open Start->My Computer and double click on the external drive
Right click in the explorer window and select paste
sit back an watch while they all get copied over.

It takes longer to describe than to do it.

If you had Exel files scattered all over the place you could run
start->search->files or folders for "*.xls" and when it finds them do a
copy/paste from the results window. .. but then when you do the paste I
think they all end up in the same destination folder I think.

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Derrek,

Drag & Drop in Windows Explorer is the simplest way.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone