watching this in 2020 thinking "Oh my god that entire hard drive was only 1.86GB"

So easy to follow - clear and concise unlike the majority of you tube videos. So refreshing to hear an English voice that speaks slowly enough to take it all in. Fantastic. It is still useful in 2024.

@cwtek1

6 ай бұрын

You're Welcome! If you haven't done so already please don't forget to subscribe to my KZread Channel, its Free and easy to do so and you will find out about all my latest videos.

He had spotify 8 years ago? Damn ahead of his time

@cwtek1

4 жыл бұрын

hehe!

@vibingsquirrel1163

3 жыл бұрын

fax

@Davyfb75

3 жыл бұрын

Hardly had it about 15 years

@Auden.

2 жыл бұрын

I mean he’s making tutorials that’s ahead of the times back then and it’s actually helpful

That was so very understandable. I just purchased an external drive to hold my crochet patterns and pictures of my work. Your video was so clear as to how to... Thanks again.

Thanks Chris. You are an excellent teacher, very clear and precise.

Very easy to understand and he has a nice clear voice,I'm of the older generation and have found this very helpful well done.

@itouchkids1

3 жыл бұрын

How old are u now😂

@stacie1131

3 жыл бұрын

@@itouchkids1 Brenda sounds like mid-40s. Maybe early 50s.

Thank you for taking the time to make, and for posting this tutorial. I have many photo folders to move. I had no idea how. Your voice is wonderful to listen to as well.

@cwtek1

8 жыл бұрын

+Jewlz Lane Thanks for your kind words, hope that it helped you out!

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your clear and precise tutorial was by FAR the EASIEST to follow and comprehend. My 4 + hours of frustration is finally over.. Thank You Again!!

You explain so well in your step by step manner. I also like how you go back and check to make sure the function has completed the task. I appreciate this very much.

@cwtek1

4 жыл бұрын

No problem and thank you for your kind comments, I am glad that the video helped you!

@johnjoehannon6082

8 ай бұрын

😊

I didn't have a clue how to back up my photos and this was so helpful. I liked the way you slowly went from photos to hard drive and back. Visuals are so helpful. Thanks for making it easy to understand!

@cwtek1

6 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped

Was excited to finally get my external hard drive only it wasn't prompting me what to do next, I had no idea. I googled the make of my external HD and your video popped up. Thank you for the instructions, very comprehensive, easy to follow!

You did a good job on this video. Easy to follow instructions.

Finally ! Someone that gives clear and understandable instructions , Thanks .

thank you ! You explained it so I could understand! BRAVO!

Thank you, very clearly explained, not like those who beat about the bush in a very confusing way...

Thank you so much for clear, easy & simple instructions on exactly how to transfer files & folders to an external hard drive!! Kudos, high-fives & thumbs-up on this video!! Awesome 🤗👍😀😀

@cwtek1

7 жыл бұрын

Roxana M. Alexander No problem glad it helped.

Dragging and dropping my C: drive pictures folder to a new external HD didn't work so I found this video. Thanks.

@cwtek1

2 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help!

Thank you I am think about restarting my laptop like brand new because its just ahh pop ups and all messed up and i want it like new but i wanted to keep some files. :)

Nice and clear. Thank you.

Your video really made this operation easy for me. All the others left me with alot of questioins. Thanks alot.

I know this is an old video but I just found you. I don't know if you still read comments but you have no idea how thankful I am for it. I have been trying for a couple of weeks to upload files on my Notebook. I am not very computer literate so I don't understand a lot of what they are telling you to do. You made it so simple & it works perfectly. Once again thank you so much for this video. I have subscribed also.

@cwtek1

6 жыл бұрын

Thats great I am glad the video helped you. Thanks for your kind comments.

followed your directions with ease. Thanks alot Chris.

@cwtek1

9 жыл бұрын

+Larry Brown That's great glad I could help!

Very helpful video, Thank you!

Very helpful. Thanks.

Excellent vid!!

Very Clear- THANK YOU!!!!

Thank you for explaining this and making it so easy!!!

Thanks very much, that's just what i needed to know.

Most helpful, uncomplicated information, deep gratitude

@cwtek1

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!! YOUR EXPLANATIONS ARE SO CLEAR! THANK YOU!!😭❤

@cwtek1

4 жыл бұрын

No problem I am glad it helped!

@Phoenix-xe6xc

4 жыл бұрын

@@cwtek1 this man's still replying on this comment after 9 years legend🔥🔥

not everyone is computer savvy, this was very helpful to me. thank you.

@cwtek1

7 жыл бұрын

That's great glad it helped you.

Thanks Chris for your help. Much appreciated.

@cwtek1

6 жыл бұрын

Tarquin45 No problem glad it helped.

ok, thats great Chris. Thank you for your reply. I'll have a go at that.

this was made very easy, thank you

Thank you sir, you made it easy and clear. God bless.

@cwtek1

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you glad it helped!

watching this help me a lot, thanks for sharing this with us!

@cwtek1

3 жыл бұрын

No problem I am glad the Video Helped!

Nice , simple , easy to understand instructions :)

@cwtek1

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind comment, glad it helped.

simple to understand,Thank U.

Thanks for sharing this, does this work the same way with music...

very detailed and helpfull instructions thanks

Unfortunately you will need to remove the duplicates manually, when copying files to the external drive, if it sees files already in there windows should warn you and should select Copy and Replace, rather than Copy, but keep both files.

thanks, helpful and easy to understand for an older person!

@cwtek1

8 жыл бұрын

+Trudi Oakley Thanks for your kind comments, I'm glad it was easy to understand for you,

:) Very helpful. Straight to the point

@cwtek1

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you glad that it helped you!

This is very helpful in my situation. Do you know how hard it is to find a video that actually teaches you how to solve your problem? Very hard apparently. My laptop has been getting all fucked up and I needed to know how to move some of my documents and pictures onto a memory stick so I could put them in another computer so they won't get lost or deleted. I would die if they got deleted or I wouldn't be able to find or use them. You are a life saver. Thank you so much :)

Love your teaching

@cwtek1

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I would NOT move programs to a portable hard drive as your PC will not know where to find them, also some programs are designed specifically to run from a drive that is always connected such as the C drive.

As far as software goes, for example, Microsoft Office or music production software such as FL Studio or Ableton, is it possible to install them to an external hard drive so I would be able to work from either my home desktop or my laptop on the go? It would be a lot easier and more fluid to be able to only have to deal with one copy of everything rather than two, but I'm not sure how the software licenses work and what they might prevent as far as using them on external hard drives goes.

Thanks Chris - Your directions was easy to follow. Al

@cwtek1

8 жыл бұрын

+Alick Yellick Glad it helped.

Thank you so much! I just brought a new USB because I needed to restart my computer (again) and I didn't want to loose my files and game data (...for the 5th time)

@cwtek1

3 жыл бұрын

That's great I hope it went well!

Thanks for the help.

so helpful thanks so much

Very helpful cheers.

thank you very much, very helpful. Love your accent!

@cwtek1

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you, good to hear. Glad it helped!

Thank you very much for this video.

@cwtek1

4 жыл бұрын

No problem, I hope it helped!

12 years ago and still makes sense on a modern computer

@cwtek1

4 ай бұрын

You're Welcome! If you haven't done so already please don't forget to subscribe to my KZread Channel, its Free and easy to do so and you will find out about all my latest videos.

very good thanks !

Thank you ,it was helpful.

@cwtek1

4 жыл бұрын

That's great glad it helped you!

Thank you for explaining it seems so easy. I'm in no way computer minded but still have to use on occasionally 🙃🙃😃

@cwtek1

5 жыл бұрын

That's great glad it helped!

Thank you thank you!

Thank you so much!

Hi, I'm looking to move photos on various Cloud accounts (mainly Onedrive, some on Google) to an external hard drive so that I can have all my photos from over the years in one place and sort through them. Is there any easy way of doing this?

My portable external does not give comprehensive instructions as expensive as it is. Thank you, sir for your help. P.s love the accent.

At a guess the songs may be in a format or set at a bitrate your Bluray player and receiver cannot play.

You can also hold ctrl in choosing two or more files

very good thanks mate

how do you copy favorites to external hard drive in win vista?

very cool, thanks!

@cwtek1

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

very helpfull infomation thanks

@cwtek1

7 жыл бұрын

No Problem Hope it Helped!

Very helpful.

Clear video to understand what your explaining 👍. I have a question, I hope you're still doing KZread. I still see a copy of my files in my computer documents, I did what you did and still see the same copy in my documents, I have them in my external hard drive they're all the same. Do I have to delete my files from my computer documents when it's all in my external hard drive? Hope you or someone reply to me.

@cwtek1

4 жыл бұрын

The video shows you how to copy the files (i.e. make a copy on the external hard drive), you can delete the original files from My Documents, but if the external hard drive goes wrong then you could lose all these files.

Thank you so much.

hi Chris, thanks for the vid. have you got any videos on how to transfer files from Dropbox to an external hard drive? cheers!

@cwtek1

8 жыл бұрын

The principal should be exactly the same if you have the Dropbox app installed on the computer. Just go to the Dropbox folder and copy the files to your hard drive using the same method.

Chris, any ideas on this? I've been trying to send files from a Windows Vista Home Edition PC to an external hard drive. When I plug in the external hard drive, it shows up in Hard Disc drives on the D drive. It does not show up in devices with removable storage. When I right click on a file to send it to the external hard drive, this option does not show in the drop down menu. So I can't send it there.

@cwtek1

8 жыл бұрын

+LordBluesman Right Click the file or folder you want to send to the external hard disk drive, move your mouse to send to then click on the item in the list that has (D:) in its name. That should do it.

awesome mate

Hi, I have rare business program on older XP laptop and i want transfer it and use it on newer laptop with windows 7 OS installed. I lost installation setup CD of that business program, so how can i transfer and use that program from older to new laptop? Can i use external hard drive?

@cwtek1

4 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, most programs need to be reinstalled from the Setup CD as it will probably want to put entries in the registry and install system files.

There are several backup programs such as Easus To Do Backup which is a free download from download.com

very good Chris. But i have a question I reformatted my hard drive to FAT32 so that my bluray player and reciver could read the info. It sees the album and sthe song n song titles but wont play it can you tell me why?

Hi Chris .. Brilliant video. Very clear instructions. I am trying to backup all my embroidery files from my laptop onto a flash drive. They are mostly stored in downloads. There are probably about 500 designs. Instead of copying individually can I copy the entire download folder across to the flash drive ..?? Have liked and subscribed to your channel. Many thanks Diane

@cwtek1

4 жыл бұрын

Yes you can copy the whole folder across as long as you have the space on your flash drive, you can go into downloads and the hold down the CTRL key then tap A then let go of the CTRL key to select all the files in your download folder.

Finally! Thank you.

@cwtek1

6 жыл бұрын

No Problem, glad it helped!

Thank you very much, it was very easy

thanks you helped a lot

@cwtek1

7 жыл бұрын

That's great, thanks for letting us know!

Very helpful

@cwtek1

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped

Can I put files from my windows PC to a external. then pit them back on a Mac. Thanks

@cwtek1

3 жыл бұрын

Yes I believe you can.

I just want to know, is there a way to make an external hard drive the default save point?

@cwtek1

8 жыл бұрын

In some programs you can choose the location you can save your files, the way you do this differs from program to program, a good place to start is to look in the programs options. However please be sure you have a backup copy of your files elsewhere, as external hard drives can go wrong just as much as internal hard drives.

Hi Chris, Thanks a lot for your informative video. Your instructions worked like a charm. I am tech challenged, and you made life a bit easier for me. I want to know, if it's safe for me to delete the original files from my computer now that I have it on my external drive so I can have more space? And I'd like to know would the external drive be considered my back up. I first clicked on back up, but I don't think I had enough space. It seems as though my external drive only have 71 GB out of 931GB for back up storage. Well, at least that's the way I interpreted it. I thank you in advance for your time.

@cwtek1

8 жыл бұрын

Your external drive is just a likely to go wrong as your computer is, a backup is regarded as a 2nd copy of your important files. It's up to you if you want to delete the files from your computer to free up space, but please bear in mind if your external hard drive dies and you don't have copies of these files elsewhere they could be lost for good. If you do need to delete the files from your computer to free up space I would suggest purchasing a 2nd external hard drive to store a 2nd copy of these files.

@joyrenae1

8 жыл бұрын

I Thank you sooo much Cris for taking the time to respond to me. You are a charm. May your favor come back to you 10 folds over.

Thank you - at long last - clear instructions, can you tell me how to

21/12/17 - I have 100's of pictures on my old computer and am wondering can I copy the entire photos folder to a external hard drive. I'd hate to have to copy each one over one at a time.

@cwtek1

6 жыл бұрын

Yes you can copy a whole folder over.

Great, Great, Have to listen very carefully, because of the English Accent,have an English E-Mail friend, so I am use to it, and have a Cousin in Scotland, that can't understand a word he says, maybe because he works for Johnny Walker in Kilmarnock , that's where my mother was born, on father's side, had a Great,Great Uncle who was a major on the British Army who received the Victorian Cross, John Buckley. Thanks for the video, very well done, Perfect

question: I have my external drive plugged in and I know it's the E drive but it's failing to show up as a selection when I go to Send To. Any suggestions?

@cwtek1

6 жыл бұрын

Does it show up in Explorer, or Computer or This PC?

i think you got it right is just my computer cuz it sucks and i hate it but im probably getting a new one and i will remeber that video so thank you sir

Hi, what I would like to do is make more space on my c drive. Can I copy or transfer programs from c drive to a pen drive for space?

@cwtek1

4 жыл бұрын

Programs are best left on the C drive I would look at moving Photos, Music and Videos first, if you still need more space then perhaps, look into getting your local computer shop to fit a larger hard drive.

@djempathie.9889

4 жыл бұрын

@@cwtek1 thank you

Zoo clear easy, thanks. So much better than some American teen,,

@cwtek1

6 жыл бұрын

No problem, glad it helped!

I have a problem - I have an external USB hard drive that I have copied my movies onto. I use that to connect to my BluRay player. But I want to create a clone backup, an "echo" on another external USB hard drive, for safe keeping. Then if any changes I make to the Master I can the "echo" to the backup hard drive. If I add, it will add, if I delete, it will delete. I have used Microsoft SyncToy and it works fine when the Master is a fixed hard drive to a backup external hard drive. But it won't backup one external USB hard drive to another external USB drive. Then I tried some other backup programs, like FreeFileSync and it too won't do it. Does anybody know an actual software that does this - seems so simple and yet scratching my head for a solution. .

May I ask if you delete the original file you send does the copied one disappear too or not

@cwtek1

8 жыл бұрын

No the copied file on the external drive will stay unless you manually delete it from there too.

Should you delete the photos on computer after transferring to stick? Thank you.

@cwtek1

6 жыл бұрын

Tarquin45 You should only delete the photos from the computer if you have another copy elsewhere, because if the stick gets lost or fails then you will loose your photos.

Many many thanks

@cwtek1

4 жыл бұрын

No problem I hope it helped!

Does this work with programs e.g. games to?

@cwtek1

10 жыл бұрын

No, see post above

Since few days ago my pc won't start to windows until I disconnect the line for my external drives. How do I make it load to windows without having to disconnect and connect again ? It's pretty annoying.

@cwtek1

8 жыл бұрын

+78l we4 It could be a sign your external drive maybe on its way out! Although I have seen some external drives will cause a delay in starting windows on some machines, unfortunately I am not sure why this is!

got issues with ejecting my flash drive from a acer chromebook that had by afew days a go i don't see no icons on the bottom

@cwtek1

8 жыл бұрын

Chromebook uses a different operating system and therefore the process would be different. Sorry can't help as I have not got a Chromebook!

thx very helpful

@cwtek1

7 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!