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02-20-2007, 07:06 PM
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Captain Pete
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: CT
Posts: 936
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Using a flash drive
How do I transfer files from one computer to another? I'm clueless.  |
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02-20-2007, 08:37 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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you plug it in the back
of the computer into a usb connection there...
then the computer
see's it and labels it f drive or g- drive
what ever drive ok
then you click on that drive and create a folder
right click the usb drive (window) for that menu
then you can drag and drop your files
to that folder |
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02-20-2007, 08:40 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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once your desired files are in the USB drive
you plug it into computer number #2
and do the reverse proceedure
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02-20-2007, 09:12 PM
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What was that!?!
Join Date: May 2005
Location: East Kingston, NH
Posts: 3,108
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make sure you safely unplug your usb device... sometimes you lose the data if you dont
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02-20-2007, 09:30 PM
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Scuttlebutt
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Westport,MA
Posts: 2,433
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and majority of the time, the files you want to transfer, when you have the flash drive plugged in, you can right click the file, go to 'send to' and it will say Removable Drive or whatever its called and youll be able to move things that way to, instead of trying to drag them 
btw, how big is the flash drive? |
Wasajigifying -[ was - a - jig-i-fy-ing] - the concept of not knowing what the hell your saying.
My Photography Page!
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02-21-2007, 07:16 AM
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Captain Pete
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: CT
Posts: 936
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MrHunters
make sure you safely unplug your usb device... sometimes you lose the data if you dont
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How can you remove it wrong? |
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02-21-2007, 08:30 AM
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What was that!?!
Join Date: May 2005
Location: East Kingston, NH
Posts: 3,108
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you need to "eject" or " unmount"the device either through "my computer" right click on the drive and click eject... or you will see a little usb device icon in your task bar. double click on that which will bring up your usb devices and eject it from there...The pc will tell you it is now safe to remove your hardware.
sometimes (not all times) it doesnt like just being yanked out. Especially in win98. And since you are transferring data that you want to keep..
I have on a few occasions lost all the data on the usb drive by just yanking it out. Or should i say the data didn't copy to the drive properly.
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02-21-2007, 08:35 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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yeah computer drives don't like premature disconnection....
they think its quite rude.... and get pissed off at ya...
like shutting off your pc with the power button instead of
hitting start ..... shut off PC ...
and great point Mr Hunters....  |
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02-21-2007, 10:33 AM
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Captain Pete
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: CT
Posts: 936
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Thanks everyone, I'll let you know how it turns out.
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02-21-2007, 05:28 PM
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Captain Pete
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: CT
Posts: 936
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Thanks again. Everything seems to working well. Tranfered some pics to the new puter, now I'm trying to transfer all my sons Itunes over. I wish I had that much music back in the day.
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02-22-2007, 07:22 AM
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What was that!?!
Join Date: May 2005
Location: East Kingston, NH
Posts: 3,108
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