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Fortunately, the Windows

®

 operating system offers a convenient 

way to back up your computer or just your important files to optical 
disc 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 disc 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 the Start button.

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 the Start button, 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, optical 
disc drive writers, scanners, etc.) and software (applications like 
Microsoft

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 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 
then be able to easily restore the Windows

®

 operating system to 

the state it was in prior to the installation, undoing any changes 
that the installation process introduced.

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Back up your critical data (see 

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