How To Back up Data to a CD
- 1). Gather your data. Find all of the files that you save with various programs. The "My Documents" folder might have al of your office files, or you might have to look around you hard drive for them. Other programs you might have to save a file and then search for where it saved it with the search function in windows. Be sure to gather your favorites which is in a favorites file under "Documents -> Settings" under your Microsoft username.
- 2). Put all the data into a folder. Have a central location where you will put the data files. In the future you might want to keep saving everything in this folder to make backing up next time easier. Under this folder you should probably create subfolders to organize the folders.
- 3). Move the data to a CD. You can paste the folder with your backed up data on it onto the CD drive once you have a CD-R or CD-RW in the drive. Then in Windows under the File menu choose write these files to CD. You can also use a program Such as Nero Burning Rom to put the files on CD, these kinds of programs just give extra options.
- 4). Continue to backup. Backup your files on a regular basis to keep newer changes saved. You may also want to save files on more than one CD and also on another hard drive for more frequent changes to be saved.
- 5). Verify the data has been saved. Take the CD out of your drive that you just saved your data to and reinsert it back into your computer or preferably another computer. Make sure all of the files are there and that they can be opened.