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It's Adobe to open so right click application you want to open and select reader Adobe...if not install download Adobe from website for free. What is happening it's defaulting to photo view you may not have software installed to read that file.
Always right click that file and another list will appear info about that file...
The problem seems to be an infection of a virus which has changed the icon of your removable drive and also when you open it up you get the "open with" option by default.
Please follow the below instructions.
Select show all files option from the folder options which you find in the start menu the path is :-Start - Control Panel - Tools menu - Folder options.
In folder options go in the view tab and select show hidden and system files.
Once you are done selecting this option , all you need to do is open your removable drive by right clicking on it and select the 'Open' Option , Or if that does not work use the explore option as you have been doing already .
You will find that the hard disk now shows up the contents, so you need to find the autorun.inf file in the root drive , once you find it , you have to 'delete' that file, also delete any suspicious hidden .exe file which is in hidden state and of a small size , which is nothing but a virus which spreads as soon as you plug in your external hard drive and the autorun.inf file get's executed automatically.
Therefore once when you delete the autorun file , you should have your hard drive working properly.
The above method was the manual method , now if you want to delete the autorun problem automatically via a software , i recommend you to download autorun virus killer by clicking on this link http://bit.ly/k3dOve
hello,
i would advice you to format your external hard drive by write clicking on it and click on format and click on start to begin, if this does not allow you to still put files on your external hard drive,then insert it on a friend laptop and see whether you can move files to it.
I hope this helps.
Regards
if the hard drive you saved the files to is separate to your laptop you can use a usb portable drive to copy these files to then plug the usb drive into your laptop to finish installing them by selecting the file right click to open
hope this helps
Does this 'portable hard drive" have a USB connector? Simply plug the drive into an available USB port. Open up the Computer icon on your computer, and look for a new drive letter. That will be your Portable drive, and you can use it for backups and file storage as any other drive.
there should be a disk that has backup software on it that came with the HD. if you just want to do simple back up just open up Mycomputer or windows explorer addn drag files to the new hd, like the my documents folder.
The portable hard drive's cable is connected to the computer's USB port (socket). The computer will see this as an external hard drive. You can open and create a folder on this hard drive and copies the files such as music, data etc from the computer to the portable drive.
You must have installed software that probably came with the portable hard drive to back up or sync files. The backup/sync option is doing just that on your back up drive. Open the software you installed and tell it not to delete files that you delete on your computer.
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