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Backing
Up
Your computer is loaded with all sorts of files- documents, pictures,
music, windows system files, and much more. And then there are the
programs you have installed, with all of their files.
But backing up a computer is a lot easier than you think!
The reason we back things up is so we don’t lose them. So what is it we
don’t want to lose? We don’t want to lose any of the files we have saved
or created. In other words, we don’t have to worry about backing up the
Microsoft Word program, we have to worry about the documents we create
in Microsoft Word.
There may be hundreds of thousands of different files sitting on your
computer, but you only need to worry about the files you’ve created or
saved. This includes documents you’ve written, pictures you’ve produced
or downloaded, music, charts, etc. You don’t have to worry about losing
Windows or Microsoft Word itself, because you have the disc needed to
reinstall them if necessary.
The one wrinkle in backing up is finding a place to put the files you
back up. All machines have floppy disks, and some have zip disks or
recordable CD ‘burners’. If you only have a floppy drive, and you’ve
created a lot of files that you want to back up, you’re going to need a
lot of floppy disks! More on that later.
The actual backing up part is very easy.
1. For a floppy disk or Zip disk:
2. Put the disk in the drive
3. Double click on the ‘My Computer’ icon on the desktop
4. In the upper right hand corner of the screen, there are three boxes
with an ‘x’, a ‘-‘, and something that looks like two overlapping boxes
5. Click the one that looks like two boxes to make the ‘window’ smaller
6. Now find the place with the files you want backed up
7. ‘Drag’ the files to the icon for the disk drive, and ‘drop’ them in.
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