Windows 10: Can you transfer a virus to/from a USB by simply plugging it in?

Can you transfer a virus to/from a USB or external hard drive simply by plugging it in without transferring any data? And what situations or types of viruses might this happen? How common is this if it does happen? And are there any ways to avoid it?

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USB Transfer to Laptop

Hello Judy,

I suggest you to copy all the files to a flash drive from the laptop.
You may create a new folder on your desktop and name that folder as per your choice.

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  Perform the steps to transfer the files from laptop to desktop.
  
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  Plug in the flash drive and wait for it to get detected.
  
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  Now, open the flash drive and Right Click on the files that you want to transfer and select “Copy”.
  
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  Now, open the folder on desktop and Right Click on an empty space in the folder and select “Paste”.
  
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  Similarly, you can transfer all other files.
  

As per the file size you can also use an external drive instead of a flash drive and transfer the data.



Hope this helps. If the issue remains unresolved, please get back to us and we would be happy to help.

 

Pictures transfer FROM flash drive TO Windows 10

Hi Scott,

Thank you for contacting Microsoft Community.

I would recommend you to follow the below given steps to transfer pictures from computer to a flash drive.

• Plug-in the flash drive to the USB port on the computer
• Select the pictures that you want transfer it to flash drive.
• Right click on the selected pictures and choose
  Send To option.
• From the options, select the plugged-in USB.
• Pictures will be transferred to the flash drive.

Hope this information is helpful and do let us know if you need further assistance. We will be glad to assist.

 

How do I get Win.10 to recognize a USB plug-in?

I will try to go step by step. I download ver. 4.5 9.
1. Setup has finished copying files to computer.
2.Plug Spyder in before launching Spyder4 Elite. I plug in Spyder
3. click next
4. I launch Spy.4 Elite. It says please select your sensor from following dialog. (Nothing in dialog to select)
5. A window comes up that says no sensor detected, and below is Spyder4 ccp 156 131331(0x20103). I looked at there site and it had an error Ref.#1564807421 Error code 131331error message no sensor detected.