How can I download a external hard drive to my MacBook pro ?

they have to replace my Macbook Disc , and before the exchange of the disk I back up my pictures, videos, music,etc.. to a external hard dirve disk. now I have my macbook with me with the new disk , please somebody tell me how to pass the external hard drive disk to my macbook..thanks

Just open the disk image in Finder, and drag all of your files to the folder you want them to go to.

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