I want to save photos to an external hard drive

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I want to save photos to an external hard drive

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I want to save photos to an external hard drive. It will save a few, then it says location does not exist and it stops copying.

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Answer 1

Anonymous

Did you try creating a folder on the External drive then copy and paste them there?

See this article about copying and pasting files to an external drive manually:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wiki...

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Answer 2

Another thing I recommend you also try is disable Controlled Folder Access...

Open Windows Defender Security Center

Click Virus & threat protection

Click Virus & threat protection settings

Scroll down to Controlled folder access

Toggle it off

Try copying them again.

Do you have any other important data on the drive?

Answer 3

Anonymous

Hi Andre, I haven't tried that yet. I've tried formatting but for some reason it won't let me do that. I'll keep trying.

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Answer 4

Anonymous

Hi Charlie, it's a new hard drive and I haven't formatted it at all. I'll try it now. It never occurred to me .

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Answer 5

Hi Mike,

How many photos are on the drive? I’d like you to reformat the drive, and then start the transfer process again.

Open up “This PC” right click on your external drive, and click format. Keep the defaults, and click start.

Once it’s done, start the transfer process again.

Please note, when the drive formats it’ll erase.

Let me know and we can move forward!

C

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