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if you have the cd for win 7 , go to the bios and change the boot sequence from hard drive to 1st cd
save change
insert the cd
shut down then start again from there
the computer will select the cd unit and load the program from there onto the hard drive
when you have finished downloading all drivers from their relevant manufacturers web pages
close down and on opening get back to bios and change the boot sequence from cd back to hard drive as first option
The files are placed on the drive by you. Unless someone setup a special application files will not automatically migrate to another drive. You would not generally want them to because they would never be where you left them and be much harder to find. Primarily you will want to be moving data files and not application files (unless you uninstall from the internal drive and reinstall to the external drive) You can open my computer and find both drives -- you can drag/drop folders (containing only data, mp3s, videos, etc) between drives. I always like to check these moves by doing a right mouse click selecting properties on each folder separately to assure that an equal number of folders and files were copied before deleting them off of the smaller drive.
I emphasize again moving programs in this fashion will cause them to break. If you have large and seldom used applications you can uninstall them then using the installation process and media provided by the manufacturer then reinstall them choosing the external drive as the destination..
If the external hard drive has been formatted on a PC in NTFS file format then the MAC cannot read data off this hard drive. The FIX.. Connect the USB external hard drive to a Windows computer and copy your data off this hard drive to the computer. Then format the external hard drive in FAT32 file format. (the MAC can read and write to data to and from a Windows PC) Now copy the your data from the computer back onto the external hard drive. Now you can connect the external hard drive to the MAC and download your data to the MAC.
in the settings for back ups you can select files and folders to back up
the back up timing can be set from immediate to hourly , daily weekly even momthly
some back up systems copy and others copy and replace so ask around what your back up is going to be
My back up does everything every week and backs up onto a 1tb external hard drive
you should get an alert that reads something like-- unable to do back up because of insufficient space
or the same message if you try to download something onto a usb stick that is not big enough for the down load
Connect the external hard drive to your computer using a usb cable. Then go to 'my computer' on your pc, click it, you would see your external hard drive. Open it. Go to the location of your favourites on the hard drive. Right click on it. Select 'send to', then select 'my documents' to send it to your documents. To unplug your hard drive, dont just pull it out. Go to the bottom right corner of your pc. Click on the notification icon. Hover the mouse pointer over each one of them till you see the one labelled 'safely remove external device'. Click on it, then click on your hard drive name. When you see displayed 'you can now safely remove external device', then unplug your cable from the pc and the drive. To access what you transfered to your pc from the hard drive, go to 'my documents'.
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