Before yous adhere a wink bulldoze or hard drive to your computer, consider the following options that Windows 10 automatically offers for using the newly attached disk:
  • Configure This Drive for Backup uses the new drive for the File History function and is best suited to big-capacity drives, at least 500GB.
  • Configure Storage Settings opens the Settings app so that you can configure the storage settings on your figurer.
  • Open Folder to View Files displays the contents of the disk in File Explorer on the desktop. You select this option to copy files to or from the drive yous're attaching.
  • Accept No Activity dismisses the notification.

Notifications appear for the amount of time specified in PC Settings. If the notification disappears before you tin select information technology, you can redisplay it by removing and and then reinserting the drive or USB cable.

Locate an unused USB port on your computer. A USB port is a minor rectangular slot on the front or back of a desktop figurer or along whatsoever edge of a laptop or tablet computer. USB ports are oftentimes marked with a symbol that looks like a trident, as shown.

win10sr-trident

If a USB port is hard to reach, you can buy an extension cablevision from whatever part supply store. You tin can too buy a hub, which adds ports to your estimator.

If you're using a wink drive, insert information technology into the USB slot. USB fits one manner merely. If you lot're using an external hard drive, plug it into a power source, if one is required, and then connect a cablevision to the USB port. Turn on the external drive, if it has a dissever ability switch. (Wink drives and some external difficult drives don't have dissever power supplies or switches.)

Windows 10 displays a notification to Cheque to see what happens with removable drives. (Y'all can click the mouse instead of tapping.) If yous select the starting time notification, a list of choices appears, as shown. If you know which activeness you want to accept, you can select that action. Otherwise, select Take No Action or await until the notification disappears on its own.

win10sr-choices

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Mark L. Chambers has been a technical author, computer consultant, BBS sysop, programmer, and hardware technician for more 30 years. An unabashed Mac enthusiast, he has written more 30 estimator books, most almost the Mac. They include MacBook All-in-I For Dummies, 2nd Edition, and Macs For Seniors For Dummies, 3rd Edition.

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