How to Add an External Hard Drive to Your Computer

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Consider what size of drive you will need.

   500Gb external hard drives can be purchased for around $60.00 to 1Tb drives for $120.00.
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   Step 2: Connect your new hard drive to your computer via a USB (Universal Serial Bus) cable.

   Be sure that you are using a USB
   2.0 interface.
   
   You could also upgrade to USB
   3.0, but you may need to purchase an internal PCI Express card. , Now glory at the expanse of extra storage space you now have. , You could simply delete these files or just keep them as they do not take up much space. ,
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   Step 3: Click the "Start" button then "My Computer"

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   Step 4: you should see your new external hard drive.

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   Step 5: Your drive should be empty

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   Step 6: but there may be some files on it from the manufacturer.

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   Step 7: Now copy and paste to your hearts content (or the maximum capacity of your new drive

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   Step 8: whichever comes first).

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