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Mounting an external drive

Mounting an external drive

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Mounting an external drive

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- [Instructor] The Windows drive lettering system for referencing storage devices seems impractical for a modern computer. Here you see media available to this computer. There's the primary hard drive C, an external hard drive D, and a thumb drive E. Yet my personal account folder which I'll access here exists only on drive C. This is the main folder I use on the system, and it provides an awkward way to access files I may need on those external storage devices which are given other drive letters. So for example, if I need to use drive D which contains my work files, I would have to access it through drive D as opposed to directly from my account folder right here. There has to be a better way, and there is. To access that drive's data from right here in my account folder, I'll create an empty folder. Home tab, new folder. I'm going to name it Work Files. This folder should be empty. Don't put anything in this…

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