How to Use a Flash Drive to Back Up Data

Video Transcript

"You know one very convenient way to back up your data, is to have it with you on your key chain. My name's James, computer hardware training coordinator for Interconnection and I can show you how to back up your computer to a flash drive. Now when you want to copy your files, you want to find out all the files you really want. You might want to start with My Documents, your business files, your bookmarks, anything you want. How to do this is you have a start, you click My Computer, use this to browse to where you want to go. In our case, we want to go to our documents, and we want our shopping list. We need to know what we want to buy at the store. So we're going to right click it, go copy, so we just want to copy it to our external device. We go back to My Computer again, to our external device, we go back to My Computer again, so now we have two windows open and there is our external storage device right there. We open it, you right click anywhere, hit paste. We've just copied one file from our hard drive to our external storage device. It's that simple. Now you just rinse and repeat for all the files you need. You can remove the external device and you've just transferred your data. My name's James, I just showed you how to back up your data using a Flash Drive."