Flash drives, also known as USB sticks, thumb drives and memory drives, are peripherals used as small portable hard drives. Windows treats as flash drive as a portable hard drive, assigning it a hard drive and giving it functions similar to any other hard drive. You can format the drive, drag and drop files to it and download files directly to the drive. Downloading files to a flash drive is a simple process that is nearly as quick as downloading files to your regular hard drive.
Instructions
1. Remove the cover from the flash drive, if it has one. Insert the drive into a free USB port and wait several seconds for Windows to recognize the drive.
2. Open your Web browser and navigate to the location of file you want to download to the flash drive.
3. Choose the "Save As" or "Save Link As" option in the browser so you can manually set the download location of the file. Choose the drive letter assigned to the flash drive. If you do not know what letter your flash drive uses, click "Start" and "Computer" to check.
4. Click "Save" to start the download process on the flash drive. If you are unable to manually choose the download location, you can drag and drop the downloaded file from the download directory to the flash drive using Windows Explorer.
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