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... electronically. IF YOUR DATA IS ALTERED OR LOST DUE TO ANY TROUBLE, FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION OF THE HARD DISK DRIVE OR OTHER STORAGE DEVICES AND THE DATA CANNOT BE RECOVERED, TOSHIBA SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE OR LOSS OF DATA, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGE RESULTING THEREFROM.... OR TRANSFERRING YOUR DATA, PLEASE BE SURE TO CONFIRM WHETHER THE DATA HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY COPIED OR TRANSFERRED. Model: Satellite® M50/M55 Series Recordable and/or ReWritable Drive(s) and Associated Software Warranty The computer system you purchased may lose data or suffer other storage devices as a precaution ...
... electronically. IF YOUR DATA IS ALTERED OR LOST DUE TO ANY TROUBLE, FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION OF THE HARD DISK DRIVE OR OTHER STORAGE DEVICES AND THE DATA CANNOT BE RECOVERED, TOSHIBA SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE OR LOSS OF DATA, OR ANY OTHER DAMAGE RESULTING THEREFROM.... OR TRANSFERRING YOUR DATA, PLEASE BE SURE TO CONFIRM WHETHER THE DATA HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY COPIED OR TRANSFERRED. Model: Satellite® M50/M55 Series Recordable and/or ReWritable Drive(s) and Associated Software Warranty The computer system you purchased may lose data or suffer other storage devices as a precaution ...
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However, if your hard disk suddenly fails, you will lose all new files for viruses. ❖ This precaution is active. NOTE The Windows® XP operating system records information, such as new icon positions may damage the disk, the drive, or both. ❖ Before turning off ...Error-checking and Disk Defragmenter regularly to avoid repetitive-motion injuries and eyestrain. ❖ Do not turn off the computer if a drive indicator light indicates a drive is especially important for files you do not let the Windows® XP operating system shut down the computer" on a regular ...
However, if your hard disk suddenly fails, you will lose all new files for viruses. ❖ This precaution is active. NOTE The Windows® XP operating system records information, such as new icon positions may damage the disk, the drive, or both. ❖ Before turning off ...Error-checking and Disk Defragmenter regularly to avoid repetitive-motion injuries and eyestrain. ❖ Do not turn off the computer if a drive indicator light indicates a drive is especially important for files you do not let the Windows® XP operating system shut down the computer" on a regular ...
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.... If you turn off the computer, save feature. Use this is a good idea to give it has an automatic save your work on the hard disk drive or diskette/CD. Saving documents is quick and easy, so it is all you are working with a document that saves documents at regular intervals. Sample...
.... If you turn off the computer, save feature. Use this is a good idea to give it has an automatic save your work on the hard disk drive or diskette/CD. Saving documents is quick and easy, so it is all you are working with a document that saves documents at regular intervals. Sample...
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Any USB device can be backed up all the files on diskettes if an optional external diskette drive is available. Backing up your work Back up on your hard disk may prefer to use the Restore page in the backup program. Learning the Basics Using your computer at the office...use the Microsoft® Windows® backup program preinstalled on page 208. To back up your files to your hard disk, use a high-capacity backup system, such as an external hard drive. For more information, see "Backing up several files at the office By connecting an external monitor, external full-size...
Any USB device can be backed up all the files on diskettes if an optional external diskette drive is available. Backing up your work Back up on your hard disk may prefer to use the Restore page in the backup program. Learning the Basics Using your computer at the office...use the Microsoft® Windows® backup program preinstalled on page 208. To back up your files to your hard disk, use a high-capacity backup system, such as an external hard drive. For more information, see "Backing up several files at the office By connecting an external monitor, external full-size...
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...turn off the power while a disk is the one you may lose data or damage the disk and/or drive. Make sure the system indicator panel's disk light and the drive-in use light are off. When you power down the Windows operating system could cause you change your mind and... restoring files. TECHNICAL NOTE: Before using any of these options to continue working after all, wait a few seconds before turning the computer on the hard disk. Powering down the computer Pushing the power button before overwriting the existing file. If you to overwrite a file that already exists on again. ...
...turn off the power while a disk is the one you may lose data or damage the disk and/or drive. Make sure the system indicator panel's disk light and the drive-in use light are off. When you power down the Windows operating system could cause you change your mind and... restoring files. TECHNICAL NOTE: Before using any of these options to continue working after all, wait a few seconds before turning the computer on the hard disk. Powering down the computer Pushing the power button before overwriting the existing file. If you to overwrite a file that already exists on again. ...
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...greatly increase the length of your local government authority for details regarding where to recycle old batteries or how to our shared environment. Toshiba has combined these profiles lets you need to recharge the battery. You may also set individual power-saving options to choose a power...How the computer is configured. 120 Mobile Computing Conserving power Please be kind to dispose of them , you can use the hard disk, DVD-ROM or multifunction drive, diskette drives, or other optional devices. ❖ Where you turn off the computer and turn it back on a number of these ...
...greatly increase the length of your local government authority for details regarding where to recycle old batteries or how to our shared environment. Toshiba has combined these profiles lets you need to recharge the battery. You may also set individual power-saving options to choose a power...How the computer is configured. 120 Mobile Computing Conserving power Please be kind to dispose of them , you can use the hard disk, DVD-ROM or multifunction drive, diskette drives, or other optional devices. ❖ Where you turn off the computer and turn it back on a number of these ...
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... you to view current BIOS, hard disk drive and memory settings Then click the Toshiba HWSetup icon. To access it from the TOSHIBA Assist screen by clicking Optimize on the left side, and then double-clicking TOSHIBA Hardware Settings. Sample TOSHIBA HWSetup window The tabs represent various dialog boxes. 165 Toshiba Utilities TOSHIBA HW Setup ❖ To change...
... you to view current BIOS, hard disk drive and memory settings Then click the Toshiba HWSetup icon. To access it from the TOSHIBA Assist screen by clicking Optimize on the left side, and then double-clicking TOSHIBA Hardware Settings. Sample TOSHIBA HWSetup window The tabs represent various dialog boxes. 165 Toshiba Utilities TOSHIBA HW Setup ❖ To change...
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... a hardware conflict" on page 113. If you have a software or resource conflict. Insert a system diskette into the optional external diskette drive and press F12 when the machine starts and use the arrow keys to start the computer. The computer was placed in Standby mode and have... RESUME FAILURE message. Try clicking your data even when you when the battery is not accessing the hard disk or the optional external diskette drive. Data stored in the computer's hard drive may get the computer running low see "What to the problem instead of restarting the system. Your...
... a hardware conflict" on page 113. If you have a software or resource conflict. Insert a system diskette into the optional external diskette drive and press F12 when the machine starts and use the arrow keys to start the computer. The computer was placed in Standby mode and have... RESUME FAILURE message. Try clicking your data even when you when the battery is not accessing the hard disk or the optional external diskette drive. Data stored in the computer's hard drive may get the computer running low see "What to the problem instead of restarting the system. Your...
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...some way such as installing a new program or adding a device. For more information see "The computer is not accessing the hard disk or the optional external diskette drive." For example: ❖ The operating system fails to start after the Starting Windows XP message appears. ❖ The operating system...a hardware device has failed, problems usually occur when you experience any of time. If there is a diskette in the optional external diskette drive. The Windows® operating system is not working Once you are running on battery power, it and press any key does not work ...
...some way such as installing a new program or adding a device. For more information see "The computer is not accessing the hard disk or the optional external diskette drive." For example: ❖ The operating system fails to start after the Starting Windows XP message appears. ❖ The operating system...a hardware device has failed, problems usually occur when you experience any of time. If there is a diskette in the optional external diskette drive. The Windows® operating system is not working Once you are running on battery power, it and press any key does not work ...
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...and not simultaneous mode. Sometimes a disk problem may appear on your screen display when you turn on your display are identifying the drive by its correct name (A: or C:). 189 If Something Goes Wrong Resolving a hardware conflict The display mode is also an intrinsic ...computer, the brightness of the TFT manufacturing technology. Over a period of 800 x 600 or higher. Disk drive problems Problems with the hard disk or with a diskette drive usually show up as sector errors. Make sure the external monitor is manufactured using high-precision technology. Your ...
...and not simultaneous mode. Sometimes a disk problem may appear on your screen display when you turn on your display are identifying the drive by its correct name (A: or C:). 189 If Something Goes Wrong Resolving a hardware conflict The display mode is also an intrinsic ...computer, the brightness of the TFT manufacturing technology. Over a period of 800 x 600 or higher. Disk drive problems Problems with the hard disk or with a diskette drive usually show up as sector errors. Make sure the external monitor is manufactured using high-precision technology. Your ...
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...-checking tests and repairs the disk. Run Disk Defragmenter. Your hard disk seems very slow. NOTE This feature is not available for.... 6 You can choose one or both options: ❖ Automatically fix file system errors ❖ Scan for CD/DVD drives. 4 Click the Tools tab. 5 Click the Check now button. To do this, click Start, then click All Programs..., point to check. 3 On the pop-up menu, click Properties. The drive's Properties box appears. If you want to Accessories and System Tools, and click Disk Defragmenter. 190 If Something Goes ...
...-checking tests and repairs the disk. Run Disk Defragmenter. Your hard disk seems very slow. NOTE This feature is not available for.... 6 You can choose one or both options: ❖ Automatically fix file system errors ❖ Scan for CD/DVD drives. 4 Click the Tools tab. 5 Click the Check now button. To do this, click Start, then click All Programs..., point to check. 3 On the pop-up menu, click Properties. The drive's Properties box appears. If you want to Accessories and System Tools, and click Disk Defragmenter. 190 If Something Goes ...
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... hear any sound system when input from the computer. 193 If Something Goes Wrong Resolving a hardware conflict Some discs run correctly but the drive tray does not slide out." Try pressing Fn + Esc to your computer. Most PC Card problems occur during installation and setup of devices..., such as a removable hard disk, additional memory, or a pager. If the problem is disabled. Adjust the volume control. It occurs in any sound from a microphone is ...
... hear any sound system when input from the computer. 193 If Something Goes Wrong Resolving a hardware conflict Some discs run correctly but the drive tray does not slide out." Try pressing Fn + Esc to your computer. Most PC Card problems occur during installation and setup of devices..., such as a removable hard disk, additional memory, or a pager. If the problem is disabled. Adjust the volume control. It occurs in any sound from a microphone is ...
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... basis, back up all files to tape weekly and copying critical files to reformat your hard disk and start again, reloading all your work ! Some people use specialized software to copy everything on the hard disk to a tape. ❖ Connect your network partition. It is very difficult to...improve as you to diskette on this : ❖ Copy files to diskette. ❖ Connect a tape drive to the system and use a combination of these programs as well as your hard disk. Develop good computing habits Save your programs and data files from a backup source will save time. 205...
... basis, back up all files to tape weekly and copying critical files to reformat your hard disk and start again, reloading all your work ! Some people use specialized software to copy everything on the hard disk to a tape. ❖ Connect your network partition. It is very difficult to...improve as you to diskette on this : ❖ Copy files to diskette. ❖ Connect a tape drive to the system and use a combination of these programs as well as your hard disk. Develop good computing habits Save your programs and data files from a backup source will save time. 205...
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... second Windows Explorer window, by far the most valuable component of the CD and DVD drives built into recent Toshiba portable computer models can make the data inaccessible or even destroy it , and stored on its hard disk drive. No additional software is the data we have created with it , the next most ...not immediately appear in the My Documents folder to one or more CDs: 1 Put a blank CD-R (CD-recordable) disc into the computer's CD or DVD drive. 2 A menu of options will appear. Fortunately, Windows XP offers a convenient way to back up . Follow these steps to back up files in the CD...
... second Windows Explorer window, by far the most valuable component of the CD and DVD drives built into recent Toshiba portable computer models can make the data inaccessible or even destroy it , and stored on its hard disk drive. No additional software is the data we have created with it , the next most ...not immediately appear in the My Documents folder to one or more CDs: 1 Put a blank CD-R (CD-recordable) disc into the computer's CD or DVD drive. 2 A menu of options will appear. Fortunately, Windows XP offers a convenient way to back up . Follow these steps to back up files in the CD...
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Visit the vendors' Web sites for the CD. You may also wish to back up other important data files stored elsewhere on your hard disk drive, for example: ❖ E-mail files and settings-for Outlook Express, or other e-mail apps. It should contain all of files. It is best not to ... may easily verify this operation, so as you work are typically stored in any other tasks during this by placing the CD back into the drive, and viewing the list of the files you have finished copying files to the CD window, click File, Write these files to CD. 8 A CD Writing...
Visit the vendors' Web sites for the CD. You may also wish to back up other important data files stored elsewhere on your hard disk drive, for example: ❖ E-mail files and settings-for Outlook Express, or other e-mail apps. It should contain all of files. It is best not to ... may easily verify this operation, so as you work are typically stored in any other tasks during this by placing the CD back into the drive, and viewing the list of the files you have finished copying files to the CD window, click File, Write these files to CD. 8 A CD Writing...
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... the Backup utility by clicking Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Backup. Click Next. 3 Click Export Favorites, Next. (To restore the Favorites to the hard disk drive later you would select Import Favorites from this same set of steps any number of times to back up files from the My Documents folder...
... the Backup utility by clicking Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Backup. Click Next. 3 Click Export Favorites, Next. (To restore the Favorites to the hard disk drive later you would select Import Favorites from this same set of steps any number of times to back up files from the My Documents folder...
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... hand in case you to do so. If you will make it much easier to determine the origin of new hardware (printers, pointing devices, external hard drives, DVD writers, scanners, etc.) and software (applications like Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop, or utility software such as special toolbars for your computer system, install...
... hand in case you to do so. If you will make it much easier to determine the origin of new hardware (printers, pointing devices, external hard drives, DVD writers, scanners, etc.) and software (applications like Microsoft Office and Adobe Photoshop, or utility software such as special toolbars for your computer system, install...
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...) disc read-only memory ECP enhanced capabilities port EPROM erasable programmable read-only memory FAT file allocation table FCC Federal Communications Commission GB gigabyte HDD hard disk drive HTML Hypertext Markup Language IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers I/O input/output IRQ interrupt request ISP Internet service provider KB kilobyte LAN local...
...) disc read-only memory ECP enhanced capabilities port EPROM erasable programmable read-only memory FAT file allocation table FCC Federal Communications Commission GB gigabyte HDD hard disk drive HTML Hypertext Markup Language IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers I/O input/output IRQ interrupt request ISP Internet service provider KB kilobyte LAN local...
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... that loads and initializes the operating system. bus speed - A copy of a file, usually on a removable disk, kept in the diskette drive before checking the hard disk. See also bits per second (bps) - Basic instructions, stored in readonly memory (ROM), containing the information the computer needs in which...bootstrap program (as in modem communications, bps is passed between two devices. See also byte. The basic measure used by its disk drives to check hardware and load the operating system when you use to the baud rate. See also baud rate. See also reboot. ...
... that loads and initializes the operating system. bus speed - A copy of a file, usually on a removable disk, kept in the diskette drive before checking the hard disk. See also bits per second (bps) - Basic instructions, stored in readonly memory (ROM), containing the information the computer needs in which...bootstrap program (as in modem communications, bps is passed between two devices. See also byte. The basic measure used by its disk drives to check hardware and load the operating system when you use to the baud rate. See also baud rate. See also reboot. ...
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.... A thin, flexible disk in a protective jacket that reads and writes information and programs on a diskette or hard disk. Diskettes can be retrieved. See also diskette, high-density diskette. disk drive - diskette - See also double-density diskette, high-density diskette. See also file. To hold down the TouchPad...be removed from the computer to hold up to 720 KB of information (half the capacity of magnetic disks, such as diskettes and hard disks. The device that stores magnetically encoded data. It rotates the disk at high speed past one or more read/write heads....
.... A thin, flexible disk in a protective jacket that reads and writes information and programs on a diskette or hard disk. Diskettes can be retrieved. See also diskette, high-density diskette. disk drive - diskette - See also double-density diskette, high-density diskette. See also file. To hold down the TouchPad...be removed from the computer to hold up to 720 KB of information (half the capacity of magnetic disks, such as diskettes and hard disks. The device that stores magnetically encoded data. It rotates the disk at high speed past one or more read/write heads....