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How do you use a memory stick?
I have some important stuff i want to be sure not to lose, and someone has given me a memory stick. How do they work?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Simply plug the stick into a spare USB socket. (You'll probably see a 'found new hardware' or 'found new drive' message is displayed on your screen).
Go to Start>My Computer and you'll see the new drive displayed there. (It will be allocated the next new drive letter available. So, if your floppy drive is 'A', your hard drive is 'C' and your CD/DVD drive is 'D', and you've got no other drive letters allocated, it will be drive 'E'. But if you've already got lots of other 'drives' - such as media card slots - it will be the furthest letter through the alphabet).
Double-click on the icon for the new drive to open a window displaying its (non-existent) contents. Reduce that window to a size which only occupies part of your screen. Then go to the folder where your important documents are and display its contents in another small window, alongside the first one. 'Drag-and-drop' files from that window into the one for your memory stick, in order to copy them.
Job done.
Chris
Go to Start>My Computer and you'll see the new drive displayed there. (It will be allocated the next new drive letter available. So, if your floppy drive is 'A', your hard drive is 'C' and your CD/DVD drive is 'D', and you've got no other drive letters allocated, it will be drive 'E'. But if you've already got lots of other 'drives' - such as media card slots - it will be the furthest letter through the alphabet).
Double-click on the icon for the new drive to open a window displaying its (non-existent) contents. Reduce that window to a size which only occupies part of your screen. Then go to the folder where your important documents are and display its contents in another small window, alongside the first one. 'Drag-and-drop' files from that window into the one for your memory stick, in order to copy them.
Job done.
Chris
Whats all this about 'memory sticks'? I haven't got one, do I need one,? Not that I've felt a need. I wouldn't know where to stick it anyway.
I've been using a computer for over 10 years now and in all that time NO-ONE has mentioned a memory stick.
Am I missing out here? Would my life be enhanced by this memory stick?
Jem
I've been using a computer for over 10 years now and in all that time NO-ONE has mentioned a memory stick.
Am I missing out here? Would my life be enhanced by this memory stick?
Jem
not if you haven't needed one before, Jemisa. They're just little things the size of your finger so you can carry them around, which may be occasionally useful if you want to take some files to a friend's house or something. It is useful backing up your files (ie making a copy) though, in case anything happens to the originals. Normally you'd probably do this to an external hard drive (about the size of a paperback) rather than a memory stick, though.