Make a Recovery Disk and Back Up Your Hard Drive on a Toshiba Satellite P750 04S with a Windows 7 Home Premium Operating System

1. Turn on your computer, wait for Windows 7 to boot up.
2. Left mouse click the Windows logo to open the start menu (located at the bottom left corner.)
3. Left mouse click ‘control panel’.
4. Left click ‘System and Security’.
5. Finally, ‘Backup and Restore’.
6. In the ‘Backup and Restore’ screen on the left hand side, you will see an option to ‘Create a System repair Disk’. Make sure you have several available blank DVDs and click on this option.
7. NOTE if you are prompted for an administrator password, please provide and then click ‘ok’.
8. Appropriately label 1st DVD and insert into CD drive.
9. NOTE with a TOSHIBA, the computer comes with its own media recovery software. Steps are shown below.
10. Turn on computer, wait for Windows 7 to boot up.
11. Left mouse click on windows logo. Under ‘Search programs and Files’ type in ‘Recovery Media Creator’, press enter.
12. Ensure you have 4 DVDs available. Make sure all 4 options under System Recovery Media are highlighted, and the bottom left option to ‘Verify’ is highlighted, then left mouse click ‘Create’.
13. NOTE if you are prompted for an administrator password, please provide and then click ‘ok’.
14. Insert 1st blank disk into your DVD drive. Make sure it is labeled appropriately. NOTE try not to touch your computer while this process is in progress. When the 1st disc has been created, insert the 2nd correctly labeled disc into the DVD drive. Do this for the next 2 discs as well. Store all media in a safe covered location.