Toshiba satellite l450 Manuale Utente

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The most valuable component of your computer system is the data 
you create and store on its internal storage drive. Since problems 
with either hardware or software can make the data inaccessible or 
even destroy it, the next most valuable component of your computer 
system may be a recent backup of your data.

Fortunately, the Windows

®

 operating system offers a convenient 

way to back up your computer or just your important files to optical 
drives, or hard drives. An external hard drive is recommended in 
case the internal storage drive fails. No additional software is 
required. Most of the optical drives built into recent Toshiba 
portable computer models can write to (or ‘burn’) as well as read 
from optical discs. External optical disc writers are also widely 
available.

Follow these steps to back up your computer or files to optical 
discs, or a storage drive:

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

Prepare your backup target by connecting it and/or inserting a 
blank optical disc in the drive.

Click Start.

Click Control Panel.

Click Back up your computer under the System and 
Security heading. Follow the on-screen instructions to back up 
your files.

For more help, click Start, Help and Support, and search for 
“back up files.”

Here are a few tips to help ensure safe and easy installation of new 
hardware (printers, pointing devices, external hard drives, DVD 
writers, scanners, etc.) and software (applications like Microsoft

®

 

Office and Adobe

®

 Photoshop

®

, or utility software such as special 

toolbars for your web browser). 

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Create a restore point (refer to 

). Before installing anything, 

use the System Restore utility to set a restore point (see the 
section titled restore points). If anything goes wrong, you will