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Working with removable storage

Working with removable storage

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Working with removable storage

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- [Narrator] Removable storage includes external drives, thumb drives, and media cards. Even a digital camera attached to your computer is external storage. To manage files on external storage, I recommend items be copied from one location to another. A file is copied from external storage to primary storage. For example, you import an image from a digital camera to the computers primary storage. Files are copied from primary storage to external storage to take them elsewhere, for backup or to share. The purpose, and the important thing to remember, is to keep stuff you work on, your important files, on the primary storage device, Drive C in windows. This drive is fixed inside the computer making its information consistently available. External drives can come and go. This presents a problem. I'm using Microsoft word with a document I've opened from an external drive. I'll now remove the drive. Press "windows" key +…

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