Copying Files to a Flash Drive or SD Card:

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1 Copying Files to a Flash Drive or SD Card: Teachers: 1. Open My Computer from the Start Menu and see which drives are shown. Most computers, for example, have a hard disk drive such as a C: Local Disk and an optical drive D: CD/DVD. With your student laptop you will also notice several network drives which are hard disk drives that are maintained by the Network Administrator and are used when syncing files from your computer to the school servers. 2. Insert the flash drive into the USB port or the SD Card into the SD Card Reader and watch to see where the drive appears within the My Computer window. Most will appear as removable storage, but some will appear as hard drives. Note the name Windows is using to refer to the flash drive, Removable Disk (F:). 3. When the drive is inserted into the computer you may notice the computer will automatically install drivers for your device to work. Your device will be ready when the following prompt appears. Occasionally you will be prompted to restart the computer for the device to work. If this is the case simply go to the Start Menu and choose Restart.

2 4. Open My Documents or the location from which you want to transfer files. Select the files or folders you want to save to the flash drive by left-clicking on them. To select more than one, hold down the CTRL key while you click on each of the files you wish to save. 5. Right-click on the files or folders you selected, then select Send to, then select the name you saw appearing in My Computer for the flash drive, TRAVELDRIVE(F:). 6. When the copying is finished, DO NOT immediately remove the flash drive from the USB port. Instead, left-click on the Remove Hardware icon located in the System Tray.

3 A window containing a list of the USB devices will appear. Left-click on the Safely Remove Mass Storage Device line that matches your flash drive, for example, Safely Remove Mass Storage Device Drive (F:). 7. When you see the following message appear from the icon in the system tray, it is, as it says, safe to remove the flash drive from the USB port; you may close the message or ignore it, as it will close itself automatically. 8. To copy files from a USB Flash Drive or SD Card to the computer just reverse the steps from above. Simply cut or copy the files from the removable storage device to the local hard disk drive. Students: 1. Click on Start; then click on Student Menu; Click on Internal Drives and select a drive letter. This will open up the My Computer screen which will display the drive letter that was selected.

4 2. Go to the left side of the screen and select My Computer; this will display all drives accessible by this computer. You can then select your USB Flash drive or SC Card. 3. When the drive is inserted into the computer you may notice the computer will automatically install drivers for your device to work. Your device will be ready when the following prompt appears. Occasionally you will be prompted to restart the computer for the device to work. If this is the case simply go to the Start Menu and choose Restart.

5 4. Open My Documents or the location from which you want to transfer files. Select the files or folders you want to save to the flash drive by left-clicking on them. To select more than one, hold down the CTRL key while you click on each of the files you wish to save. 5. Right-click on the files or folders you selected, then select Send to, then select the name you saw appearing in My Computer for the flash drive, TRAVELDRIVE(F:). 6. When the copying is finished, DO NOT immediately remove the flash drive from the USB port. Instead, left-click on the Remove Hardware icon located in the System Tray. A window containing a list of the USB devices will appear. Left-click on the Safely Remove Mass Storage Device line that matches your flash drive, for example, Safely Remove Mass Storage Device Drive (F:).

6 7. When you see the following message appear from the icon in the system tray, it is, as it says, safe to remove the flash drive from the USB port; you may close the message or ignore it, as it will close itself automatically. 8. To copy files from a USB Flash Drive or SD Card to the computer just reverse the steps from above. Simply cut or copy the files from the removable storage device to the local hard disk drive.