Hi Linda,
Here are the steps to take for copying to an external hard drive. 1.. On your desktop you should have an icon called My Computer. There you should press enter so you'll see the list of drives you have on your computer. In that list will be the 2 drives you'll be working with. One of those should be your C Drive which is your main hard drive. The other will be whatever letter your external drive has been assigned by your computer. For purposes of these instructions, let's just call it your D drive. 2. Arrow to your C drive and hit enter. Use your arrow keys to go down to whatever file you want to copy to your D drive. If you want to copy more than 1 file, and they are next to each other in the list of files, arrow to the first file, then hold down your control key, then press your arrow key down so you'll hear which files are selected. 2.. Once you have your file or files selected, keep your control key held down and press your C key. C stands for copy. Then you can release the control key. 3.. Now, hold down your alt key and press the Tab key until you here My Computer again. Release both keys. This brings you back to the list of the drives of your computer. Arrow to the D drive, and press enter. This puts you into the D drive where you'll be putting your copied folders or files. 4.. If you just want to copy the files into that drive, without putting them into a particular folder, hold down your control key and then press the V key. This pastes the files into that drive. JAWS will tell you the percentage of how much is being copied into the drive. That is if you have a lot of files, or the file you are pasting is very large. If it is a small file, it pastes it so fast that it won't give you a count. 5.. Once it's pasted, the file or files should be at the end of the list of files on the D drive. Press your End key (That's E-N-D, not N). That will take you to the end of the list so you can check to make sure the file is there. You can go ahead and hit enter on that file to make sure it is all there. 6.. If you are satisfied it's there, go ahead and hold down your alt key and press F4 to close the file if you've opened it. Then press the alt key and F4 to close that hard drive. This should automatically bring your C drive back up. If you don't want to keep the file or files on your main C drive any more, just arrow to the file you copied so that it is highlighted. Then hit your delete key. If the file is not too big, JAWS will ask you if you are sure you want to move the file to the recycle bin. Tab until you hear yes and hit enter, or when it asks you if you are sure, just hit your Y key. If the file is very large, JAWS may ask you if you want to permanently delete the file. Hit the Y key if you are positive you don't want it there anymore, or hit the tab key to the Yes choice and hit enter. If you are not sure, just hit No and the file will not be deleted from the C drive. 7.. Hold down your Alt key and press your F4 key to close your C drive. ** If you don't have the icon for my computer on your desktop, you can also get there by going through Windows explorer. If you need to do that, just write again, and I'll explain how to do that. I think that's everything. Except for emptying your Recycle bin. If you need that instruction, just ask. That's done through Windows Explorer also. I hope I explained those steps good enough. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 9:31 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] A Question About Copying to an External HardDrive >I am probably the least advanced user on here. Could you tell me step by > step how to copy to an external hard drive? 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