WINDOWS 11: How to Copy Files and Folders to USB Drive

Shows you how to copy your files or folders to a USB Drive or External Hard Drive in Windows 11

[ImmranImmanBarrie]

Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge with the globe. I'm so impressed by the techniques that you used to teach your students.😅😅 . Love from Sierra Leone

[Righteous]

Windows 11 is not user friendly it seems so counterintuitive, I don't know what I would do if not for these wonderful instructional videos on Youtube

[marbogoon]

Thanks bro I was getting all stress out thank you this came in big time for me ✌️

[ChristineAustin-yf]

This is by far the best explanation, Thanks

[robinmaddox]

I could actually follow and understand you. Thanks and I will be using you for my computer knowledge~

[JohnSmith-ofvh]

Hi Chris, Your video is the first to show clearly what to do & I would like to thankyou. Are you running Windows Home or Pro? I have the latter preinstalled & do not share your file setup. For example there are no files beneath 'My PC' such as Documents for example, there is only some of these in Quick Access. I downloaded Powershell 7 (x64) as the computer asked me to do this when I attempted your procedure. This helped me finally transfer a file onto a stick!

[ckemesha]

Thank you so much. Very clear and detailed. I feel like a computer geek now lol😂. Bless you and thanks again., ,👍

[leecruickshank]

Good practical advice, easy to follow.

[darlenehyman]

Thanks so much! You explain everything wonderfully.

[rezamohamadakhavan_abdolla]

Thank you very much for a clear explanation.

[krishnamoorthy]

clear and detailed information sir. Thankyou sir

[maggiebrimson]

plugged in new scandisk memory stick and 3 options to install ?

[properpolymath]

Thank you. I had to watch this because when I plugged in my USB there was no "USB Drive" appearing on the right side of File Explorer. I just switched back to Windows after many years and it's driving me a bit mad

[grad]

Hi Chris. Have you done a YouTube video showing how to do the reverse of this? I have a USB thumb drive with videos, pictures, and documents that I want to put into the appropriate folders on my Windows11 computer. Can you help? Thanks very much!

[mustajabnoor]

you know if u copy the folders to the USB and deleted them from the computer does it delete from the USB aswell?

[chuchitacruz]

Hello Chris. I'm having the same problem as Proper polymath. The thumb drive didn't come up after selecting the computer and inserting it. Thank you for your help🤗

[Blackdog]

Not sure if this is on topic, but I just bought a new computer, and have about 8, 000 songs on my old Windows 7 computer. I have Windows 11 now, and I copied all the files onto an old HDD, and now a new SSD drive because the old HDD drive was giving me too many sector errors. But the SSD drive worked fine, copied all the songs in one folder, but I noticed the file size was off, but the data (each song was there on the SSD drive). Why does this happen?

[mcinmaigh]

I just get an error for every file that's in the "copying" folder so it is essentially useless. It says the name is the same from destination to drop. Any tips?

[domdompomodoro]

THanks. Is there any way of synchroinizing the files when you re-copy to an external drive so that any modification will be copied ?

[keeravan]

can we do reverse...i.e. once booted via bootable drive insert one more usb and copy files from usb in to computer