Toshiba 3490CT - Portege - PIII 700 MHz, User Manual

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Learning the Basics
Backing up your work
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Twisting or bending a diskette.
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Placing heavy objects on your diskettes.
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Eating, smoking or using erasers near your diskettes. Foreign
particles can damage the surface.
Backing up your work
Your computer comes with a Recovery and Configuration Builder
CD that enables you to reinstall software that was preinstalled.
This CD can be used to install or reinstall particular Toshiba
applications, utilities, and drivers. You should always back up
your files in case something happens to your computer. If you
have a network partition at the office, you can hold copies of your
files there.
Alternatively, you can back up your files to diskette one at a time
as you are working on them.
See “Copying documents to a
diskette” on page 72.
To back up several files at one time, use Microsoft’s Windows
backup program preinstalled on the computer’s hard disk.
Complete information on the backup program is in the online
Help and your Windows documentation.
HINT: Backing up all the files on your hard disk takes a
considerable amount of time and many diskettes. You may
prefer to use a high-capacity backup system, such as an
external tape drive.
Restoring your work
To restore information from your backup media to your hard disk,
use the Restore page in the backup program. Look in online Help
or your operating system documentation for information on
restoring files.