How to Download Amazon Prime Video to Hard Drive

Imagine this: You’re excited to catch up on your favorite Amazon Prime Video series, eager to share it with your friends, or perhaps you want to download it for backup. Suddenly, you realize your device’s storage is nearly full, leaving no room for those wonderful movies.

This is where an external hard drive comes in handy. With its large capacity for file storage, an external hard drive is the perfect solution for backing up high-definition movies from Amazon Prime Video. In this guide, we’ll show you how to download movies or shows from Amazon Prime Video and transfer them to your hard drive, whether you’re using Windows PC or MacBook/iMac. Let’s dive in!

Can I Save Amazon Prime Video to a Hard Drive Directly?

Yes, you can. If you are a Prime member, you can first change Amazon’s download location to an external hard drive, and then download Amazon Prime Video to a hard drive directly. Though it is not recommended by Amazon, it indeed allows its users to change the output file location. You can rely on this feature to free up storage space locally. Below are the steps for your reference.

Step 1. Download, install, and launch Amazon Prime Video on your desktop, and sign in with your Prime account. Please note that the official app is available for Windows 10 (17763.0) or later.

Step 2. Set the external hard drive as the file location for your Amazon downloads. Press the “Windows + I” keys to open “Settings” on your computer, open the “Storage” option, click “More storage settings”, select “Change where new content is saved”, and then select the hard drive and save the change.

Step 3. Search for the Amazon Prime title you wish to download. On the details page, click the “Download” button to save Amazon Prime video to your hard drive. A reminder, the setting only takes into effect when the external hard drive is connected to your computer. You should keep the two connected during the whole downloading process. The settings you made will expire once you disconnect them.

Part 1. Download Amazon Prime Videos as MP4 Files

Due to the restrictions of the Amazon Prime official app mentioned above, to get Amazon videos downloaded on your hard drive, you’ll need to save Amazon videos as MP4 files first, then transfer the downloads to any external storage such as a hard drive, USB, SD Card, etc. To achieve this, a reliable Amazon Video downloader is a must.

TuneFab Amazon Video Downloader is what you need to get rid of all the download restrictions. With its built-in web browser, you no longer need to switch from the official app, and can directly search for your desired movies on TuneFab to download Amazon Prime content into high-definition MP4/MKV/MOV videos (up to 1080P). Even if you are a free user, you can access and obtain paid content hassle-free.

Here are the easy steps to download Amazon Prime Video to MP4 with the TuneFab Amazon Video Downloader.

Step 1. Download, install, and launch the app on your computer, then log into the web player from the home screen.

Step 2. Search for the video/show you want to download, or copy & paste the video’s URL from Amazon Prime’s official site to the search bar on TuneFab. You can choose more than one title, and then click “Add to Queue” to make the content in line for conversion.

Step 3. Go to the top right of the screen, select the output format, and click “Convert” (next to each title) for a single video or “Convert All” (at the bottom right) to make the downloading process start. Here you can also set “Output Format”, “Output Quality”, “Output Folder”, etc. as per your preferences.

Part 2. Move Amazon Free Videos to External Hard Drive

Once you’ve gotten the MP4 files from Amazon Prime Video, connect your external hard drive to the device (Windows PC or Mac), and you can effortlessly transfer them to a hard drive. So far, it is the most efficient way to download Amazon videos to an external hard drive.

Transfer from Your Windows Computer

Before transferring, please check your external hard drive’s storage space to ensure a smooth transfer process.

Step 1. Connect the hard drive to your Windows computer with a USB cable.

Step 2. Open the TuneFab Amazon Video Downloader, navigate to the “Finished” section, find the downloaded movie you want to move, and click the “View Output File” to locate the output folder.

Step 3. Open “This PC”, select the folder corresponding to your hard drive, and simply drag and drop the MP4 files from the output folder into the folder on your hard drive.

Transfer from Your macOS Device

Before starting the transfer, please ensure you are using a compatible hard drive. If the one you are using is in a non-compatible format like NTFS or HFS+, format it or just try another one.

Step 1. Connect your external hard drive to your Mac with a USB cable. It should appear in Finder if it’s compatible.

Step 2. Open the TuneFab Amazon Video Downloader, navigate to the “History” section, and click the “Folder” icon to locate the output folder.

Step 3. Select and drag the downloaded MP4 videos to your external hard drive.

After the transfer finishes, you own them permanently and can enjoy unlimited share and uninterrupted offline playback whenever you want. By the way, the steps to download Amazon Prime movies to USB are nearly the same as your downloading them to the external hard drive mentioned here. Have a try by yourself first.

Summary

While Amazon poses limitations on downloading videos to an external drive from its official app, TuneFab Amazon Video Downloader emerges as a powerful solution. With its help, you can download the wanted videos to HD MP4/MKV/MOV in advance, making your process of saving Amazon Prime videos to an external hard drive a breeze. Try it today to embrace seamless offline viewing and elevate your effortless share with your friends for incredible Amazon content.