Android phones have many merits apart from their traditional use like chatting, making calls, and sending emails. One additional advantage is that smartphones can be turned into portable hard drive devices. The biggest issue with smartphones is storage space, but they can still accommodate videos, songs, movies, and documents. Making it a portable hard drive has a few tweaks to it.
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Buy a MicroSD Card
Your first move is to buy a microSD card. I advise you not to use any microSD card you find lying to anyone as it can have viruses. Head on downtown to a shop and get yourself one. This is only for phones with a microSD card slot and to increase storage space. It acts as external memory to avoid mix-ups with the phone files. A 64GB microSD card will do.
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Insert Card into your Phone
Make sure it is inserted well. After this, plug a USB cable into the phone and then connect it to the computer. When the computer has detected the phone as a USB install the drivers to help you view the contents of the data storage.
Enable MTP on the Android device.
Once you have plugged your phone into the computer, your phone will receive a notification. Swipe down the notification bar, tap the notification and then tap the icon ‘Connect as a media device’. When you do this, it’ll notify you for file transfer.
On The PC
Open the PC and head on to My Computer or the drive icons if you have a Mac desktop. Select the SD Card or internal storage folder depending on which has enough space to store your files.
Open the directory in another window that contains the files you want to copy over to your Android device. Select the files by either right-clicking on the file then scrolling to copy and tap it or holding the CTRL key left-clicking on the files and copying them.
In any case, if you decide you need them no more, you can repeat the same procedure or delete them from the location you transferred them to. For quick transfer of files and easy access, a smartphone is your best bet.