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If Something Goes Wrong
Developing good computing habits

This section suggests some good habits to develop so you are 
prepared if things go wrong.

You can never predict when your computer will lock, forcing you 
to close a program and lose unsaved changes. Many software 
programs build in an automatic backup, but you shouldn’t rely 
solely on this feature. Save your work! It only takes a few 
moments, and it could save you many hours of work to recreate 
files.

Files held in your network partition will be backed up for you, but 
you need to back up any important files that reside only on the 
Satellite Pro’s hard disk. 

Here are a few ways you can do this:

Use the operating system to copy files to diskettes.

Connect a storage device to the system and use specialized 
software to copy all your data from hard disk to a tape.

Connect the system to a LAN and copy files to some other 
location on the network. 

Some people use a combination of these methods, backing up all 
files to tape weekly and copying critical files to diskette on a daily 
basis.

If you’ve added software to your system, you should back up the 
software as well as the data. If something goes wrong that requires 
you to format your hard disk and start again, reloading all your 
software and data from a backup will save time.