How to Copy Files to a Flash Drive, Thumb Drive, or External Hard Drive | Windows 10

hey everyone today we have a quick tutorial for you we're gonna be showing you how to copy your files so your pictures or documents to a thumb drive or flash drive or an external hard drive on your windows 10 computer it's really easy to do i've got two quick methods for you but hey if you're new here my name is ken and this is northern viking every day and we bring you videos on reviews and how to's so please consider subscribing so you don't miss out on any upcoming videos let's go ahead and jump right over to my computer desktop and show you exactly how to copy your files [Music] alright so here we are on my windows 10 computer and the first thing we need to do is plug in our thumb drive or flash drive or external hard drive into our windows 10 computer if you don't already own a flash drive or an external hard drive i'll put a link in the description below to some of my favorites you can go check those out on amazon now the process to do this copying of files to your device should be the same on all of these devices so i'm going to use my thumb drive today so i'm going to plug that right into my computer so once i plugged in my drive it popped up automatically for myself on my screen and i know this is my drive because it says kodak usb g colon here at the top and that's the drive i was using if you're using a different brand of drive maybe a sandisk or western digital or samsung it'll have a totally different name than what i have here now this is where you would copy your files to um on this drive and you can see it's empty right now if this did not pop up automatically for you i'm going to show you how to find that right now so i'm going to close this and we need to go ahead down to the start menu in the bottom left-hand corner and left-click on that you're going to see a whole bunch of things that come up here and you'll see all your programs here on the left but we need to go all the way to the very left and you're going to see this small little icon and when you hover over it you're going to see it says documents we're going to go ahead and left click on documents and that's going to bring up a file explorer window just like this where we can search for our drive now if we scroll down here and i'm going to minimize my computer here it might look something like this where you don't see your drive you need to expand this pc there's a little arrow next to it and you should be able to see everything on your computer and we want to go down to our drive and find it here at the bottom and again mine's kodak usb yours is probably something different we're going to go ahead and left click on that and again we're going to be right where we need to be to see everything that's on our drive and if you have files on that thumb drive or flash drive already they'll show up right here the next thing we need to do is actually find the files that we want to copy over to our thumb drive so we're going to go back to the start menu click on that and go back to documents here on the left left click on that and you're going to see it pops up and you can search your computer for your files so maybe they're on your desktop you could click on your desktop here or maybe they're in your documents or maybe they're in your pictures you need to find where your files are mine are in my documents and i'm going to double click on these files here this folder that says files and these are the files that i want to copy over to my thumb drive so the first method we're going to show you is to actually just drag and drop them so i'm going to take one i'm going to click on it and hold down the left mouse button and just drag it over just like that and let go it's going to copy that over if i wanted to hold a copy a whole bunch at one time i can click on the first one hold down the shift key on your keyboard and use the arrows to highlight a few of them just like that so you can see a few of them are highlighted and now i can drag them over all like that and it's really easy to copy them over so that's the first method again if you're trying to do a whole bunch of one time it's shift and your arrow keys down or up to highlight a whole bunch of them now i'm gonna just delete these off of here so if you need to delete them off of your thumb drive you can highlight them by just just like that dragging your mouse cursor over them and just hitting delete on the keyboard are you sure you want to permanently delete these four files yes and it's going to delete them off my thumb drive and i again i know this is my thumb drive because the name's right there so the second way to send files to our thumb drive is quite easy probably easier than the first actually i'm gonna leave this open so you can see exactly what's going on we want to click on the file we want to copy over so file one i'm just gonna right click on it and we're gonna go down to send to here it's near the bottom so go to send to and we're gonna go down and look for our drive so kodak usb we're just going to left click on that and it's going to copy that file right over to our thumb drive now again if you want to do this with multiple files just click on file 2. we're going to hold down our shift key and our use our arrows to highlight three files we're gonna right click on it and we're gonna go to send to kodak usb and it's gonna copy all three of those files over so we've got all four of them there now one last thing before you pull out your thumb drive we want to make sure we eject our thumb drive so we don't corrupt our data that's really easy to do so i'm going to just close these windows just like that and to pull our thumb drive out we want to go down to the bottom right to our little icons down here and if you're not seeing a little usb logo here you might have to click on the little arrow and you'll see a little usb icon here and you can right click on that and it says eject usb flash drive kodak usb i'm just going to go ahead and left click on that and it's going to eject it so we're not corrupting our data and all our files are saved properly and it's really that simple to copy our files from our computer to our flash drive or external hard drive so i hope this tutorial was able to help you out in backing up all your files to your thumb drive or flash drive or external hard drive if it did make sure to give this video a thumbs up also remember to connect with me on social media you will find all those links below in the description thank you so much for watching today and until next time take care you

Channel: Northern Viking Everyday

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Id: 52BATyJrmeg

Length: 6min 6sec (366 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 08 2021