How to use flash drive and other removable drives?

Many of us will be having Web Camera, Digital Camera, Mobile Phone, flash drives / USB Drives. But initially we may find it difficult to use these items in our P.C. Here is how it can be used. Please substitute the word ‘flash drive’ with the type of item as said above, which you may want to use.

After booting / starting your P.C., first go to ’Desktop’ and click on the ’My Computer’ icon. After the ‘My Computer’ window opens, just leave it as it is and go to next step. Please insert your flash drive in the USB Port meant for it in your computer. If you are an user of Windows Vista or Windows XP, you may not use any installation driver to open the flash drive. Remember that in case of Web Camera / Digital Camera / Mobile Phone, you may need an installation driver to open the items.

After inserting the flash drive, your P.C. will understand and install the specific driver and then will display a message ‘Found New Hardware’. This message will mostly appear in the right hand bottom of your computer screen. Then if you go to ‘My Computer’ window [which was opened earlier], there you can find a new drive with name ‘Removable Disk [__]’. The disk name in display will contain an alphabet depending on the Hard Disk Drive partition that exists in your P.C. Locate the new drive in ‘My Computers’ window and click on it. Then a new window will open displaying no items. No worries, since it’s a new flash drive, you may not find any items there. If the drive is an already used one, you will find the existing files and other items there. If you want to save any file there in your flash drive, just Drag and Drop the file from its original location. You can also do vice versa to get the files from your flash drive to the Hard Disk Drive of any P.C.

To remove the flash drive from your P.C., just click on the icon in System Tray, which will display ‘Safely Remove Hardware’. Then click on the message, it will display a message ‘Safe to Remove Hardware’. Then remove your flash drive from your P.C.

Please remember to close your flash drive back to its original position by replacing the cap or by turning it back or by sliding it back as per the type of the flash drive.