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Member Since: February 2006 Posts: 407 Send Message	Wills	Report	2 Jun 2008 22:49
	Sue If you have a reasonable size screen, open up two copies of windows explorer. Resize them so they sit side by side on the screen. Then use your mouse to drag (left click and hold) files to where you want them
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 2,132 Send Message	Ivy	Report	2 Jun 2008 21:54
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 2,132 Send Message	Could you use Windows explorer to see what folders you have on each drive at the moment? Once you have the list open, you might be able to use "File, new, folder" to create the folders you want and to sort your files into the folders?
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 5,733 Send Message	Sidami	Report	2 Jun 2008 21:38
	I have taken a lot of things off my computer and put them on a portable hard drive but the thing is I want to put them in the correct folder but not sure how to do this any one help please Sue
	Researching: Ringrose from Countesthorpe Lord and Burley from Countesthorpe...Dixon Dawson Wood and Wilkinson from Caistor ,Starkey and Wood from Edendam. Hare from Horncastle.