How to Install an External Hard Drive.

External hard drives are very easy to install and it only takes about 2-3 minutes. If it's a USB external hard drive, just plug it into your computer's USB port. If it's a FireWire external hard drive, just plug it into your computer's firewire port. Window's does the rest. You'll see a little balloon popup in the bottom-right corner of your screen that says "Mass storage device found". Windows then automatically assigns a drive letter to your external hard drive. Then click on Start, My computer, and you'll see this:

It may look a tad different depending on what kind of external hard drive you have. And Windows may assign your external hard drive a drive letter other than E:, but the point is that you'll notice you have a new hard drive you didn't have before. Double click on the hard drive icon and you can drag and drop files to your external hard drive. It's as easy as that!

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