External Hard Drive transfer

[astondog]

I have dragged a load of files to my external hard drive as instructed and have a page load of files.

However I have missed something as there is no space been used on the external hard drive.
Duh!!! where did I go wrong?
Answers in plain simple idiot proof English
Cheers

[MarkRae]

Can you please explain what "a page load of files" means...?

[wildwood]

I presume the drive shows up as such under 'My Computer'. Just open the ext.drive by double clicking it and copy the files that you want to copy and click once in the ext.drive page and paste. If the file(s) is of considerable size you should see a small window pop up somewhere showing the progress of the operation.

Once finished and confirmed that the writing has been successful you can then delete the files from the original drive if you so want.

[MarkRae]

> I presume the drive shows up as such under 'My Computer'.

You're also presuming that the OP is using Windows...

[wildwood]

What is an OP???

[gen2]

OP = Original Poster

[joko]

you have just dragged the icons across (the little file pictures)...not the file contents...you must copy them across properly

[astondog]

It looks as though I just have a page of File names om my KDrive (External hard drive) so now I need to know how to make sure the actual files are there as well.
My CDrive is almost full

[astondog]

To follow up my last post, I'm really confused now, have I got to drag the file names back to the hard drive (as the contents are obviously still there, or is there a way of copying the contents ontpo the hard drive?

[joko]

if the files are still on your c drive, the you can just delete the icons on your ext drive

highlight the files you want to copy and the right click...scroll down to send to, find your drive in the list ...an click it