11.

Finish moving all the files that you want from every location on the
computer (different folders that contain files) onto the flash drive.

12. Properly eject the flash drive by right clicking on the icon in the
How to Transfer Files from
taskbar that says “Safely Remove Hardware” and click on the flash
drive. It should come up with a box that says it is now safe to remove
One Computer to Another
the device. Figures 13 and 14 show how to do this.
Figure 13 Computer Using a Flash Drive

Figure 14

13. Remove the flash drive from the USB port by pulling it straight out.

14. Insert the flash drive into a USB port on the 2 nd computer.

15. Left-click, hold, and drag the files off the flash drive to the desired
folder on the 2nd computer. You will use all the previous steps to copy
the files and move them from the flash drive to the computer, but this By:
time through the steps the flash drive is like the computer and the 2 nd Ryan Raguse
computer is like the flash drive. Karina Nordsven
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16. This is an optional step. After you have moved all the files from the Ryan Tucker
flash drive to the second computer, you can delete those files from
the flash drive. This will clear up space on the flash drive to put more
files on it or clear the space to move files from one computer to
another computer again.
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These instructions will help you transfer files from one computer to 10. Optional. You can select the files you want to move/copy from the
another computer. As you go through these instructions, there are computer by copying them (Ctrl+C or File/Organize Copy), and
multiple ways to do some steps, but you should do it whichever way is then open up the flash drive and paste (Ctrl+V or File/Organize
Paste). Figure 10 shows how to select multiple files at the same
most comfortable for you. If you have never done anything like this
time and Figure 11 shows how use the menu to copy them. Finally,
before, you may want to look at the pictures very closely.
Figure 12 shows how to use the menu to paste these files once the
flash drive is open. You can also copy folders. If you copy a folder,
1. Figure out what type of files you want to transfer by looking at it will copy all of the contents of that folder.
them on the first computer. There are 4 main types: documents,
Figure 10
pictures, movies, and music. Figure 1 shows a window, and in
this window is an example of what each will look like. Everything
is displayed in windows, which is the viewing area of what you
are looking at. These will be explained more in depth later on.

Figure 1

Figure 11

2. Buy a flash drive that fits your needs. Figure 2 shows a table that
describes how much data can fit on different sizes of flash drives.

Figure 2 Figure 12
Amount of each file the Flash drive can hold
Size of Flash Word Documents Photographs MP3 Audio Files
Drive
1 GB 20,000 640 64
2 GB 40,000 1,200 128
4 GB 80,000 2,400 256
8 GB 160,000 4,800 512
16 GB 320,000 9,600 1,024
32 GB 640,000 19,200 2,048
7. Have both windows open at the same time. The window with the files 3. Plug the flash drive into an available USB port on the computer
in it and the window that has the flash drive open. (This will be the you are taking the files off of. Make sure to line up the connections
window that came up when you clicked “Open folder to view files.”) since they only go in one way. Refer to Figure 3 for a view of a USB
Refer to Figure 9 for an example. port.

8. Click and drag the files from the window that contains them on to the Figure 3
open flash drive folder in the other window. There are many
documents in the window on the left, which is the computer. You
could drag them over one at a time or select more than one by left
clicking and dragging a box around multiple documents to select all
the files you wish to move. Once they are selected, just left-click and
hold it down while moving the cursor to the flash drive and finally
letting go of the left mouse button. This will copy those files to the
flash drive. Refer to Figure 9.

Figure 9
4. A prompt box should appear on your screen after you have
plugged in the flash drive. Click on “Open folder to view files.”
Refer to Figure 4.

Figure 4

9. Optional. If you are working on a file and want to save it to a flash

drive directly, you can do this by doing a “save as” to the flash drive
while you have the document or file open. This works particularly well
for office documents like a Word document or an Excel file.
5. If the prompt box does not open, locate the flash drive in “My Figure 6
Computer.” This can be found either on the desktop or in the start
menu. In Figure 5, you can see that in “My Computer” the flash drive is
listed under “Devices with Removable Storage.”

Figure 5

Figure 7

6. Locate the files on the computer that you wish to move. Many files are
in the “My Documents” folder or the “Libraries” folder. Figure 6 is
showing an example of what a “Libraries” folder looks like. Files are
stored in folders and folders can also store other folders. Folders store
Figure 8
everything that is saved to a computer and when you open any folder
you see it in a window. When you start trying to copy things to the
flash drive, you need to be able to maneuver these windows. Figure 7
shows an example of the top of a window. If a window is taking up the
full screen, clicking the center button will make it smaller. To move a
window, you just left click and hold in the top of the window (where
the mouse is shown) and move the window to where you want it. If it
is still too big you can resize the window by putting the mouse in the
bottom corner of the window like it is shown in Figure 8. Again, left
click and hold to be able to drag and resize the window so that two
windows will fit on the screen at once so you can copy.