Help! I don't understand the instructions (portable HD)

Floxxie

Thank you so much, 21300 files have been transferred :T:T

Thank you for your help clever people

Poostix

As long as you can access the information in this way you don't need to copy the info unless you need it on that computer. you can just use the portable HDD for data storage of files and it will keep the things that you only access a few times a year out of your laptop memory giving you more space to play with on your daily machine.

I have a 1tb HDD that I use for storing all pictures, music, videos etc.... that I need access to but not every day. this allows my PC to run very well on a day to day basis while giving me the option to get to my files whenever I want. :-)

Glad we could help. :-)

closed

poostix, have you considered the consequences of your portable hard drive failing, or a virus wiping all your files? Almost a daily occurrence on this sub forum. External drives are best used for backups, or storing unimportant data, not master copies.

Data on a c drive doesn't slow it down

Floxxie

Just a quickie. Having transferred over the files, the whole operating system has come across but I can't locate the MS files that I had in Excel and Word. Where would I find them or are they lost forever?

TIA

kwikbreaks

I'm guessing that you saved them somewhere under "My Documents" on the original PC and the path to that depends on what the original operating system was. eg
XP you need to find a folder named Documents and Settings then below that will be a number of user names each with their own "My Documents"
Win 7 and I think Vista look under the Users folder

Hammyman

Floxxie wrote: »

Can find 'computer' though

<faceplant>

Floxxie

Thanks kwikbreaks, have located them