Drive Rescue Software' title='Drive Rescue Software' />How to use an external drive without any special software. Many, even most, Seagate, Maxtor and Samsung external drives are sold with bundled backup and management software. However, in some cases it is not possible to use such software. A few examples are A user has lost or uninstalled their software and needs a temporary or permanent means of using the external drive to backup data. A users bundled backup software is malfunctioning for a period of time. A user prefers to backup data manually. At Prosoft Engineering Inc., we pride ourselves on developing bestinclass computer repair software, hardware, and services for the computer world. What I consider to be two of the most important factors when choosing drive imaging software is Ease of Use, and Reliable Image Creation and Restoration. Quite simply. The drive did not include any bundled backup software. The user is using the drive for additional storage and has an alternate method of backing up. Older external drives bundled software may not be supported in Windows 8, Windows 7 or Vista or a newer version of the Mac. OS. Every model of Seagate, Maxtor brand, and Samsung external drive has a ready to use formatting already in place. In Windows, there is no need to do anything special or additional to make the drive work. Simply plug in the power, plug in the USBFirewiree. SATA cable, and the drive should appear in My Computer and Windows Explorer almost immediately. Once it is detected, all you have to do is move data into it. There are 2 general ways to do this Drag and drop. Copy and pasteWindows 8 has an additional option called File History. See this Microsoft article for details. Here is how to perform those actions on a Windows computer Drag and drop. Here we will discuss dragging a piece of data from the My Documents folder to the external drive. This exercise can be repeated with one file, many files, one folder, or many folders. First, open one window by double clicking on My Computer. If the upper right hand corner of the window that opens includes this symbol, click it. It will change to this symbol. Now you can resize it. Move your mouse to a corner of the window. Click and hold down the mouse button, on the corner of the window. Move the mouse, still holding down the button, and the window corner will move with your mouse. Resize it so that it only takes up a portion of your screen. Look for the Seagate, Maxtor, or Samsung external drive in My Computer. It will be a drive letter, like E or F unless you have changed it. Open My Documents by double clicking on it. Resize the window in the same way, so that each window takes up only a portion of the screen. Now you will have two windows. One is the source, one is the destination. How To Install Face Pack In Cricket 07 Pc more. Click to expand the image. Click and hold down the mouse button, on the document you want to move. It will illuminate and a ghost image will move with your mouse button. Indrakshi Stotram Telugu Pdf. Drag the mouse so that the ghost image hovers over the icon representing the external drive in this example, the V drive. Click to expand the image. Let go of the mouse button and the file will copy automatically to the external drive. Double click on the external drives letter. Double clicking sometimes causes Autoplay on our newer drives. Right click on the external drive letter and choose Explore. The contents of the external drive will display on the window. Click to expand the image. The task is complete  This is known as a drag and drop action. Copy and Paste. Double click to open the place where the file you want to copy is located. My Documents, for example. Find the file or folder you would like to copy and right click on it. A drop down menu will appear. Choose Copy. Click to expand the image. The file or folder is now copied and held in the computers short term memory. Double click to open My Computer. Look for the Seagate, Maxtor, or Samsung external drive in My Computer. It will be a drive letter, like E or F unless you have changed it. Double click on the external drive. The window will change to a display of the contents of the external drive. On the top bar of the window, choose Edit. Alternatively, you may right click on blank space within the window and a drop down menu will appear. Choose Paste.  Click to expand the image. The file or folder will appear inside the window. It is copied.  The task is complete  This is known as a copy and paste action. How to perform these actions on a Mac computer Drag and Drop Make sure your drive is formatted for the Mac or that the needed driver has been installed on your computer. As a rule of thumb, drives with the for Mac suffix in the drives name will be already formatted for use with a Mac computer. Examples Free Agent Go for Mac, Backup Plus Slim Portable Drive for Mac. Other family of drives will be versatile and allow you usage on both a Mac and a PC. The Go. Flex and Plus families are such drives. Examples Backup Plus Desktop, Free. Agent Go. Flex Portable. These drives come preloaded with a little driver you need to install to ensure proper usage with the Mac computer. On such drives, locate the Mac. Installer. dmg file on the drive and install it to your computer. This will allow you to transfer data to the drive properly. Once the drive is ready for use, make sure you can locate it on your computers desktop. Once you can see the drive, open up a Finder window and navigate to where you have the data you wish to drag and drop. If the Finder window opens on top of the drives icon, move the Finder window around so you can see both your data inside the Finder window, as well as the drives icon on the desktop. Navigate to where the filefolder you wish to move over to your drive is located at. For example, if you are trying to copy some documents, then you would go under Favorites in Finder, and then Documents. Left click and hold the filefolder you wish to move to your drive. While still holding the button, slide your mouse so the cursor points over the Seagate drive. Let go of the mouse button to have the filefolder to move inside the drive. Note If you hold the button while having the cursor over the Seagate drive, the drives window will open after a few seconds. This is useful in case you want to put the filefolder into a specific folder already located on the drive. Copy and Paste. Make sure your drive is formatted for the Mac or that the needed driver has been installed on your computer. As a rule of thumb, drives with the for Mac suffix in the drives name will be already formatted for use with a Mac computer. Examples Free Agent Go for Mac, Backup Plus Slim Portable Drive for Mac. Other family of drives will be versatile and allow you usage on both a Mac and a PC. The Go. Flex and Plus families are such drives. Examples Backup Plus Desktop, Free. Agent Go. Flex Portable. These drives come preloaded with a little driver you need to install to ensure proper usage with the Mac computer. On such drives, locate the Mac. Installer. dmg file on the drive and install it to your computer. This will allow you to transfer data to the drive properly. Once the drive is ready for use, make sure you can locate it on your computers desktop. Once you can see the drive, open up a Finder window and navigate to where you have the data you wish to drag and drop. If the Finder window opens on top of the drives icon, move the Finder window around so you can see both your data inside the Finder window, as well as the drives icon on the desktop. Right click or Command click the file or folder you want to copy inside the Seagate drive and choose Copy name of the file or folder you clicked on.