Develop Good Computing Habits - Toshiba M60-S811ST User Manual

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Develop good computing habits

Save your work frequently.
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
should not rely solely on this feature. Save your work! See
"Computing tips" on page 76
On a regular basis, back up the information stored on
your hard disk.
Here are some ways you can do this:
Copy files to diskette.
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Connect a tape drive to the system and use specialized
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software to copy everything on the hard disk to a tape.
Connect your computer to the office network and copy
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files to your network partition.
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 have installed your own programs, you should back up
these programs as well as your data files. If something goes
wrong that requires you to reformat your hard disk and start
again, reloading all your programs and data files from a
backup source will save time.
Read the user's guides.
It is very difficult to provide a fail-safe set of steps you can
follow every time you experience a problem with the
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