How to Install an External Hard Drive
External hard drives are very easy to install and it only takes about 30 seconds. If it’s a USB external hard drive
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!
On a Mac, when you plug in your external hard drive, it will appear right on your desktop, usually in the upper right hand corner of your screen. Just double click on the hard drive icon to open it into Finder, and then you can drag and drop files as you wish. When you need to “eject” your external hard drive from your Mac, don’t just unplug it. Instead, click on the hard drive icon and drag it to Trash to safely eject the drive from your Mac. Sometimes your Mac could be writing information to the external hard drive without your knowledge, and by unplugging it you could damage the external hard drive or loose data.