Dragging files into a USB mini harddrive

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If an excel, word or other kind of file is dragged and then dropped into a usb HDD does this affect the original files on the computer which were dragged or are they simply just copied and the originals remain the same.
 
If a file is dragged to USB hard drive, the file will be moved to the USB hard drive and it wont remain on the folder you dragged it from. Also it shouldn't have any effect on the file because it's just moving it from one directory to another.
 
After i dragged the file from the main computer HDD into the portable HDD the computer said copying and the the file on the main computer seemed to remain the same it was still there in its original form and another copy of the file was on the portable HDD
 
textbook said:
After i dragged the file from the main computer HDD into the portable HDD the computer said copying and the the file on the main computer seemed to remain the same it was still there in its original form and another copy of the file was on the portable HDD
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Hmm... that's strange. Usually when you right click your mouse and hit "copy" on the original file and then go to your USB HDD and right click and hit "paste" it makes a copy of the file there and the original remains in it's original folder. But when you drag you move the original file to the location where you dragged it to.
 
lubo4444 said:
Hmm... that's strange. Usually when you right click your mouse and hit "copy" on the original file and then go to your USB HDD and right click and hit "paste" it makes a copy of the file there and the original remains in it's original folder. But when you drag you move the original file to the location where you dragged it to.
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actually i don't think that's true. all other relevant stock settings at default in windows, whenever you drag-click-drop a file from your c: to external hdd or flash drive (or vice versa) it always copies it over. this happens when a file is transferred from one drive to the other, but not when a file is moved around within its own drive partition.
 
Guardian01 said:
actually i don't think that's true. all other relevant stock settings at default in windows, whenever you drag-click-drop a file from your c: to external hdd or flash drive (or vice versa) it always copies it over. this happens when a file is transferred from one drive to the other, but not when a file is moved around within its own drive partition.
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Well, i guess it's possible but on my system it copies the entire file without keeping the original file. So i guess both are possible.
 
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