About USB Memory

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Dave Andrews. Today I'm going to tell you a little bit about USB memory. The laptops and the computers that you use have within them a device that's called a hard drive, and that's where you store all of your files and all of your folders and your operating system is on there. Pretty much everything you do on the computer is saved on the hard drive. So what a USB external memory is -- I have one here -- is basically an external hard drive that you can leave just sitting on your desktop and it has a USB plug, just like this one, that you can plug into your computer or your laptop, and this will show up as a second hard drive. You know, you have a C drive, a lot of times the D drive is your CD. This one will show up as an E or F or whatever the next one might be. So I'm going to give you a little demonstration on how to use this. I'm just going to take the USB plug here and I'm going to plug it into my laptop. If you can see my screen, you'll see that it's going to pop up, showing me that I have a new hard drive plugged into my computer, and it'll pull up that hard drive. I open up my computer. Let's find what this new drive is. Alright, in this case it's drive F, because that was the next available drive letter that I have. Now as you can see there's no files on this device right now. So let's say I have a document here called "Budget." That's currently stored on my C drive, which is the hard drive inside of my laptop. I'm just going to grab this and copy it over to this F drive. So now I have a copy of "Budget" on my external hard drive. If I unplug my external hard drive, that drive is going to go away. That window should actually close out saying that it's not available anymore. But as you can see here, that file that I've just copied over, that "Budget" file is now stored on this little bitty card because this is a device that uses cards as hard drives. My name is Dave Andrews, and I've just explained to you a little bit about USB hard drives."