1. Open windows explorer. Click the “Start” icon in the lower left of
your desk top screen.

2. In the “Start Search” panel – type “windows explorer” and hit enter.

This will open your windows explorer.

3. In the side bar – Select and open the “Computer” icon folder. Below the computer icon you will see all external drives and external memory cards/sticks listed.

In this example (C:) is the computer hard drive
(D:) is the computer data drive
(E:) is the DVD/CDR drive
(F:) is a removable data stick
(G:) is a Western Digital external hard drive
(H:) is a Toshiba external hard drive

4. Select the external hard drive – in this example the external hard drives have a manufacturer name and icon “My Book” and “TOSHIBA”.

5. I have selected the “My Book” external hard drive.

6. I now can see what folders and files are present on the Drive.

7. Open any folder on the external drive to view the content.

To view the file content of your external hard drive on a MAC

1. Open finder window by clicking on the finder icon in the MAC Dock.

The side bar helps you navigate

2. Click on the external drive icon to see what folders are available.

3. Or – search for a file using spotlight – type in a file name in the
window and finder will show you all relevant files and where they are
located.

Hope this helps.

I will be posting a video clip tomorrow.