When you connect a digital camera to your computer, an icon that represents it appears in the "Computer" folder along with a list of all the other drives connected to your machine. Even though you know you've just connected a digital camera, your computer treats the device as a standard hard drive with removable storage. Because of this, if you want to transfer images from the hard drive of a digital camera to a USB flash drive, you just need to use the Windows Explorer file browsing system. The steps outlined in this article apply to all versions of the Windows operating system from Windows XP onward.
Instructions
1. Plug your digital camera's USB cable into both your digital camera and a USB port on your computer.
2. Connect your USB flash drive to a USB port on your computer.
3. Click "Start." Windows Vista and 7 have replaced the word "Start" on this button with an image of the Windows logo.
4. Click "My Computer." Windows Vista and 7 just call this "Computer."
5. Double-click on the icon for your digital camera to open its contents on screen. Then, return to the "Computer" window and double-click the icon for your USB flash drive to open its contents in a separate window on screen. Position these two windows next to each other on screen so that you can see them both at the same time. You can now close the "Computer" window.
6. Click on a file from your digital camera's Windows Explorer window and drag it into the window for your USB flash drive. The file you selected will be transferred from your digital camera to your USB flash drive. This will copy the files--a copy of the file will remain on the digital camera and will also be present on your USB flash drive. You can now repeat this process for any other file you'd like to transfer from one device to the other.
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