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I'm guessing that it's not your laptop the exact message would be useful .... but quite probably it's telling you to make a set of system discs.
some sellers provide a set of CDs containing everything you need to recover from a disaster.
some put an image of the files on your HDD and nag you to make your own ....
it's well worth doing (keep them somewhere safe .... ) .... just in case
some sellers provide a set of CDs containing everything you need to recover from a disaster.
some put an image of the files on your HDD and nag you to make your own ....
it's well worth doing (keep them somewhere safe .... ) .... just in case
As you may have too much data to go on even a few disks, you may find it useful to buy yourself an external hard drive which can be used as a backup for your whole data block, photographs etc.
It plugs into a USB port like other peripherals eg MP3 player, and you copy onto it as normal. If you have a lot of data, it would take a while, but you could copy it across in smaller blocks as required. When you want to update the back-up, you can copy across a later version and then delete the earlier one.
They come in all sizes and memory, some similar to an MP3 player.
We've just bought one for �74.99 which has 360 GB (very good value) from our local computer shop . The one I have is not very large, about A5 sizeish (5" x 8" x 1" deep)and is portable and easy to store. I also bought one for my daughter as she wanted to back up all her data for security.
Hope this helps.
It plugs into a USB port like other peripherals eg MP3 player, and you copy onto it as normal. If you have a lot of data, it would take a while, but you could copy it across in smaller blocks as required. When you want to update the back-up, you can copy across a later version and then delete the earlier one.
They come in all sizes and memory, some similar to an MP3 player.
We've just bought one for �74.99 which has 360 GB (very good value) from our local computer shop . The one I have is not very large, about A5 sizeish (5" x 8" x 1" deep)and is portable and easy to store. I also bought one for my daughter as she wanted to back up all her data for security.
Hope this helps.
Sorry everyone this is the first time I have had a minute to get back to your kind answers.
Vehelpfulguy - yes it is Vista.
I did save some photos onto a CD but I thought they looked like they lost some quality when I looked at them on the CD to check they had downloaded properly.
I guess the best thing is to save things onto CD's on a regular basis. I don't want to buy anymore equipment. I have already saved the odd important file.
Vehelpfulguy - yes it is Vista.
I did save some photos onto a CD but I thought they looked like they lost some quality when I looked at them on the CD to check they had downloaded properly.
I guess the best thing is to save things onto CD's on a regular basis. I don't want to buy anymore equipment. I have already saved the odd important file.
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