1. open a window to show the files on your external hard drive but don't let the window be at maximum size ie. shrink it a bit so you can see the desktop.
2. On the external Hard drive, if you organise all your music files into a music folder and same with all of your pictures into a picture folder .... right click on the 'music folder' and select 'copy'
3. now move the cursor to your desktop and right click ... select 'paste' ..... this will copy a shortcut to these files on your desktop. Double clicking on these new desktop icon will bring you to the files inside this folder on your external hard drive.
Jason
January 2008