How did you just watch and see which files/folders are already on the portable hard drive?

Trying to access the site just to get a glance at what already on the disk. Haven't used in years. Think that it could possibly be this hard, never be you making fun of me!

Hello Koolbreeze7,

I'm not sure of the method that you use to access your external drive, but regardless of the type of drive, it's (portable hard drive, USB key, etc.) they are all accessible fashion.

It works on all versions of Windows.

Connect the USB hard drive. A driver installed the first time you use it.

Click Start, then computer and double-click it to open it.

You should see similar to this image of hard drive icons.

When you plug the laptop drive, another icon of the disc is added to your list. This is the icon you open to access the content.

If a new drive icon does not appear when it is connected, your computer does not recognize the drive and so you will have to go through the steps of troubleshooting of the error.

Here is a video showing the same thing on a XP machine.

Videofrom YouTube.

Note: Where, he says, 'My computer' can be as simply "computer" depending on which version of Windows you are using.

 

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