How to Use a Portable Hard Drive to Transfer Scanned Documents to a Hard Drive
- 1). Connect the external hard drive to the computer where the digital scans will be restored.
- 2). Click the "Start" button located in the lower left corner of the Windows desktop.
- 3). Click the "My Computer" button in the start menu that appears.
- 4). Double-click the icon for the external hard drive to open the file menu.
- 5). Navigate to the scanned documents and select them by holding the "Control" button and left-clicking each document file. Release the "Control" button after the final file has been clicked.
- 6). Right-click one of the highlighted document files and select the "Copy" heading from the context menu that appears.
- 7). Click the left arrow button in the upper left corner of the current Windows Explorer window to the return to the "My Computer" page.
- 8). Double-click the icon for the hard drive where the scanned documents will be stored.
- 9). Navigate to the folder into which you wish to copy the scanned documents.
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Right-click anywhere within the folder and select the "Paste" heading from the context menu. This copies the scanned documents to the selected folder.