Downloading from Camera to portable Hard Drive: How do you download from a D7100 to a Portable Hard Drive. I do not want to cause my camera any grief.

gary robertson Loc: Now living in Sandpont Idaho, from So. Cal

How do you download from a D7100 to a Portable Hard Drive. I do not want to cause my camera any grief.

ewforbess Loc: San Antonio, TX

Your portable hard drive should have its own drive designator -- D:, E: etc... You can download to this drive from your camera's SD card to the portable drive the same way you download to your computer. If you are running Windows on a PC, you can either drag and drop or use the Copy and Paste functions. Keep us posted!

jgunkler

Some portable drives have CD card slots. If so, pull your card out of the camera and insert it into the drive for fastest download.

Rongnongno Loc: FL

Read the manual.

ken_stern Loc: Yorba Linda, Ca

Rongnongno wrote:

Read the manual.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Rongnongno wrote:

Read the manual.

I dunno - sounds more like a basic computer question than an RTFM to me.

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

Depends on the drive. If it's USB connected to your computer, place the memory card in a card reader and do a copy/paste to whatever folder you want on the external drive. If the drive is a WD Passport, place the SD card in the slot, hit the button and new images are automatically transferred.

You could also connect your camera directly to your computer via a mini USB to USB3 cable and "see" the memory card as a system drive and do a copy/paste. I don't like this, since it uses the camera's battery and that could effect the ability to shoot images.

And, see, you can answer a question here without being excessively snarky.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

gary robertson wrote:

How do you download from a D7100 to a Portable Hard Drive. I do not want to cause my camera any grief.

If you're using a computer, just pretend the hard drive is your computer and connect the camera to the drive with the USB cable. Without a computer, you would need a drive with an SD card slot, like a WD wireless drive.

https://smile.amazon.com/Passport-Wireless-Portable-External-Drive/dp/B00M9B3XZM/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1502793321&sr=8-4&keywords=wd+wireless

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Rongnongno wrote:

Read the manual.

Right! It's only 384 pages, and if you're lucky, you might be able to find that topic and understand what the translators wrote.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

rgrenaderphoto wrote:

And, see, you can answer a question here without being excessively snarky.

Good answer, and I agree with your last sentence. I hope you or the OP didn't think my comment was snarky - I was disagreeing with the idea that the answer to the question could be found in the manual. It's a computer question, and you've answered it well.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

TriX wrote:

Good answer, and I agree with your last sentence. I hope you or the OP didn't think my comment was snarky - I was disagreeing with the idea that the answer to the question could be found in the manual. It's a computer question, and you've answered it well.

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Rongnongno Loc: FL

The problem here is that is is a computer question.

What drive is it (Brand/Model)?
What are the features of that drive?
Capacity?

We have NO INFORMATION.

So you are all guessing a solution.

Hence: Read the (drive) manual.

This RTM is not snarky, just realist. Had I added the F as in RTFM, THAT would have been snarky.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Rongnongno wrote:

The problem here is that is is a computer question.

What drive is it (Brand/Model)?
What are the features of that drive?
Capacity?

We have NO INFORMATION.

So you are all guessing a solution.

Hence: Read the (drive) manual.

This RTM is not snarky, just realist. Had I added the F as in RTFM, THAT would have been snarky.

I seriously doubt that the manual that comes with an external drive (if any) discusses in detail how to copy an image from a camera to a directory on the drive, but if I'm mistaken, I'll certainly correct my statement. I took it as a general question on how to move or copy a file from a device or different directory to a directory on an external drive. By the time I added my comment to the thread, the question had already been answered, or I would have answered it (rather than telling the OP to read the manual).

ken_stern Loc: Yorba Linda, Ca

With the painfully limited amount of data provided ----
Suggesting that the guy read or at least 1st try to read the damn manual - Granted probably poorly written- that must have come with the drive is both logical, helpful & this side of intelligent ----
Not at all "snarky"
just ----
One guys opinion

royb_36-cox.net Loc: Phoenix

gary robertson wrote:

How do you download from a D7100 to a Portable Hard Drive. I do not want to cause my camera any grief.

There are three ways to download the video and image files from a Nikon D7100. They are, the USB jack, removing the memory card or stick and Wi-Fi using the Nikon's WU-1a Wireless Mobile Adapter. None of methods will cause any problems to the camera. The download method and procedure depends on the portable hard drive. Portable hard drives come in many configurations which include one or more of the three camera interface methods as well as the simple USB external hard drives which connect directly a computer which then becomes the device the camera interfaces with.