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Resize the window in the same way, so that each window takes up only a portion of the screen.Open (My) Documents by double-clicking on it. It will be a drive letter, like E: or F: (unless you have changed it). Look for the Seagate External drive in (My) Computer/This PC.Resize it so that it only takes up a portion of your screen. Move the mouse, still holding down the button, and the window corner will move with your mouse.Click and hold down the mouse button, on the corner of the window.Move your mouse to a corner of the window. If the upper right-hand corner of the window that opens includes this symbol ( ), click it.First, open one window by double-clicking on (My) Computer/This PC.This exercise can be repeated with one file, many files, one folder or many folders. Here we will discuss dragging a piece of data from the (My) Documents folder to the external drive. How to manually move your data to the drive in Windows: If you are looking for an automatic backup then you will want to use the utility built-in to Windows, see links below: If you are looking to move the data manually, then you can use an option below: Simply plug in the power, plug in the USB cable, and the drive should appear in (My) Computer/This PC and Windows Explorer/File Explorer.įor Mac, you will need to reformat the drive prior to using it because it will be read-only on a Mac, which means you will be unable to copy or move data to the drive. In a Windows-based computer, there is no need to do anything special or additional to make the drive work. Unless your drive says 'for Mac' on the front of the box then the drive will be formatted for Windows. This article covers ways to use your drive without having to install any additional software. For the detailed guide on ripping DVD, you can follow use VLC to rip DVD.Your Seagate External Drive may come with software, so there may be additional ways to use your drive not listed in this article. Very easy, right? Besides ripping audio CDs, you can also rip DVD with VLC. Just hit the "Start" button to converting CD to digital audio format. Then you will go back to the "Convert" window. Choose "Profile" and click the tool icon to open the form window, where you can set the output audio codec, bitrate, channels and sample rate. When you finished the settings, click "Convert/Save" button to continue. And for "Starting Position", just hit the "up" arrow button to choose the track where you'd like to start.

For "Disc device", click "Browse" to choose the source CD disc. Now select "Disc" and click "Audio CD" under "Disc Selection". After that, you will be presented with an "Open Media" window. Click "Media" on the toolbar and choose "Convert/Save" from the drop-down menu. Insert the CD disc you want to rip to your computer's disk drive and open VLC media player.
