Pc drive c full (1 Viewer)

[Canvey birder]

My pc c drive no space left can I transfer all my photos safely to external drive to release space and is it easy

 

[Richard D]

Yes it's straightforward. I would copy them to an external drive before deleting them from the C drive rather than moving them. Plug in an external drive, find the folder and you can probably copy the whole folder.

 

[Butty]

Yes and yes. Dead easy. But - frankly - you sound as if you are pretty inexperienced with PC software and hardware (no offence), and it's obviously not something you would want to take any risks with... so I would recommend that you get a more-knowledgeable mate to do it for you.

 

[delia todd]

Yes, it is easy. Have you got an ext drive yet, don't go cheap/cheap... as they are inclined to fail.

If you've got some 'special' pictures that you really, really, don't want to lose, you could put them on a back-up as well, say a flash drive or memory stick.

 

[Steve Babbs]

As others have said easy but in future I would always have two copies of any treasured photos anyway: hard drives fail. I have 3 copies, 1 of which is stored at a friend's house in case the house burns down.

 

[earthdragon64]

Another vote for 2 back ups, I have 2 plug and play hard drives and special photos are also stored in a couple of places online. If you have an Amazon Prime account for example, you get unlimited photo storage with it.

 

[JakeM]

Another vote for two backups. and another vote for copy and paste rather than "move to". Also you may first want to try and defragment your current drive to see how much (if any) space it opens up.