How do I store all my files like my music,videos and pictures to a disk so I can do a system restore?

Question

How do I store all my files like my music,videos and pictures to a disk so I can do a system restore?

Answer 1

a system restore (if that's really what you mean) doesn't delete any personal files, it only rolls windows back to a previous time.  personal files will go unaffected though...

Answer 2

A system restore shouldn't erase any of your music, videos or pictures but I'm always a bit wary. I have a website and the system restore somehow managed to bring back older versions of pages I'd edited. And they weren't in my personal My Documents folder but in a folder on the root of the C: drive. So you're right to want to back up everything.

If your PC has a CD or DVD burner on it, you will probably have burning software with it (e.g. Nero, Sonic, Roxio). In that case, put a blank CD or DVD into the driver and get the software to burn a Data Disc. If you don't have software on it, download CDBurnerXP from http://cdburnerxp.se/download.php.

Alternatively, if you have an mp3 player with lots of space, you could copy the files onto that. If you have a lot of files that you wouldn't like to lose, you should think about buying an external hard drive. They've become a lot cheaper in recent times. Maybe you have a friend who can loan you one til you do the system restore.  

Answer 3

an mp3 or mp4 player are great for this type of thing just plug it in via USB and open the mp3/mp4 in my computer then drag and drop your files onto the mp3/mp4 players memery

Answer 4

depends on how much space you are planning on taking up with your music, videos, and pictures. if u have more than say 10GB it would be wise to buy a portable hard drive or an external hard drive, i have a lot of music, videos, and pictures (approx. 45GB) and i bought a 320GB external hard drive, i know it might seem like a lot of space, but i download a lot of music and videos so i know eventually i'll fill it up, but not anytime soon so i don't have to worry now about space running out

Answer 5

Put a blank DVD in your disk drive, right clik on the folder you want to save to disk, and clik ' send' and select E: drive/ DVD drive