How to Easily Find (and Remove) Duplicate Photos on External Hard Drive

Remove duplicate photos from external disk in Windows 10

Lots of people would like to backup their data on an external hard drive, like iTunes backup, and photos and videos. But after transferring photos to an external hard drive several times, you can get some duplicate or similar photos piling up your external disk storage. 

If you ever sorted these photos by naming them differently and the disk does not contain many duplicate images, you can easily find them and delete or send them to another place. However, it could be a headache for your to organize your photos. 

Don't worry, this post will guide you on how to easily get your duplicate images quickly and you can deal with these photos.

The Best duplicate photo finder/remover

You can turn to a professional duplicate photos finder/remover-FoneTool. With this tool, you can easily and quickly search similar photos on your images and delete them,

• Large-scale scanning. FoneTool helps you find out all duplicate and similar photos from tons of images.
• Scan from different folders: If you sorted your images in different folders, you can choose these folders by yourself to scan with this duplicate photos finder.
• 100 % accuracy: No matter how many images you got, FoneTool can find out all photos that appear on your external disk more than once.
• Support various devices: They can recognize HDD, SSD, SD card, USB flash drive, and iPhone, iPad.

Next, you can download this software, and we will show you how to remove find and delete duplicate images on an external disk with this tool.

How to find and delete duplicate photos on external hard drive in Windows 11/10/8/7

Step 1. Run FoneTool, click “Photo Deduplication” on the main interface.

Step 2. Click the “Scan Computer” < “Add Folder”. Select the folder keeping your images. Click “Start scanning”.

Step 3. It may take a little time to scan your hard drive. Then select the duplicate you don’t need. Click “Delete”.

By the way, FoneTool can also help you remove duplicate images from iPhone/iPad, and help you transfer photos from iPhone to computer without duplicate.

Conclusion

This is how to find duplicate photos on external disk and delete or migrate them to another location. With FoneTool you can perform this operation with ease. In addition. FoneTool is also a iOS manager. It helps you backup and transfer photos to iPad, iPhone or transfer iPad/iPhone to PC. 

And it comes with a HEIC Converter. If you want to view and edit iPhone photos on computer, this features can help you convert HEIC photos to JPG, JPEG, PNG.