Toshiba GMAD00134010 manual 200

200	If Something Goes Wrong
	Develop good computing habits

Follow these steps to back up files in the My Documents folder to one or more CDs:

NOTE You can not back up the computer while running on battery power. Connect the AC adaptor before continuing.

1Put a blank CD-R (CD-recordable) disc into the computer’s optical drive.

2A menu of options will appear. Select Open writable CD folder using Windows Explorer, and click OK.

3A Windows® Explorer window will open for the blank CD. This window will be referred to as “the CD window.”

4Open a second Windows® Explorer window by clicking Start, then My Computer.

5In this second window, browse to the files you wish to back up. Click the down-pointing arrow at the upper-right of the window (to the left of the Go button) to see a list of locations that includes My Documents—a likely location of your data.

6Drag and drop folders or individual files from this window into the CD window. If the files do not immediately appear in the CD window, press F5 (or click View, Refresh) to prompt the Windows® operating system to display them.

NOTE Documents and other data files that you create as you work are typically stored in the My Documents folder. You may also wish to back up other important data files stored elsewhere on your hard disk drive, for example:

❖E-mail files and settings—for Outlook, Outlook Express, or other e-mail applications. Visit the vendors’ Web sites (www.microsoft.com, for example) for detailed instructions.

❖Newsgroup files and settings—for Outlook Express or other newsgroup readers. Visit the vendors’ Web sites for detailed instructions.

❖Other data files. If you do not find an application’s data files in any of the folders within the My Documents folder, check the application’s options or preferences settings to discover the locations of the files.

7When you have finished copying files to the CD window, click File, Write these files to CD.