Question

Prepare A Demo

Objective: What are the commands you would need to use to backup your media files like music / pictures / movie folders and backup media files, like .mp3 / .jpg / .mp4 or .mov files, into their respective folders from a common media folder?

Process:

A) List, line by line, the sequence of commands needed to backup your media files.

B) Provide a brief description of what each section is doing between each section.

C) Example: Copying media files, with a blank line in between, what command is being used.

Use blank lines to between sections for readability in your documentation. It is OK to list groups of commands or comments without extra blank lines.

(No Screenshots please)

Answer 1

Occasionally, we encounter Windows boot problems that prevent us from getting started on Windows 10/8/7. Of course, one can use Windows recovery tools to fix most of the problems related to the startup but there are some irreparable errors in the recovery environment. This is the time when you want to get data from your computer. However, for many home users, the importance of backing up data is ignored until it is too late. It is clear that they should have saved their data and settings behind computer screens. You will no longer be able to sign in windows when your app is malfunctioning. This can be caused by a virus that continues to shut down a PC, be corrupted, lost or contain windows files. If you have such a problem, come to the right page. We'll show you how to gain access to your computer and back up your data before reinstalling windows.

Of course the hard drive can always be plugged into another computer like a 2nd drive or an external USB. It may allow you to copy data to removable media such as CD, DVD, or other USB drives. If you work from a heavily installed laptop or can't find a computer that can receive a second drive, getting data becomes tricky. You can reinstall Windows, but once you run out of space, this will not happen. There are many backup programs you can use to retrieve your data. If you don't want to use a penny for something you can easily do, then the best bet is using the Prompt command to back up your data if you have to format your partition to re-install windows.

Windows always runs its operating system with the old MSDOS command line interface. You can always choose to boot from this app during startup or recovery time. To execute the Prompt command and back up your data, follow the roaring methods. You will need an removable drive e.g. pen drive or flash disk or external hard drive to back up your data.

Use command prompt commands to back up your data to the external storage

Here we will use command prompt lines/commands to identify our files and the backup location and copy those files into the backup location.

1. Follow steps 1 – 5 in method 1 to launch command prompt
2. To see your drive available type ‘diskpart’ and hit enter. Now type ‘list volumes’ and hit enter to see all available drives and their letters. Now insert your USB drive and type ‘list volumes’ again and hit enter. The new drive letters in this list are the drive letters of your USB drive. They will also bare the name of the volume.
3. Type exit and hit enter to exit the diskpart mode
4. Type the letter of the drive that contains the data you want to back up e.g. C: and hit enter (There is no need to back up drives that you are not going to install windows into)
5. Type dir to see all the folders and files in the drive C:
6. To move into a folder type ‘cd foldername’ and hit enter. To step back to the previous folder, type ‘cd..’ and hit enter.
7. To copy a certain folder or a file to your drive type xcopy DirectoryPathToCopy DriveLetterToCopyInto\ /E
8. For example xcopy C:\Users E\ /E will copy users files and folders to drive E:.
9. The last letter \E tells the command to copy folders and subfolders including empty ones. To get more help type ‘help xcopy’
10. You can now go ahead and reinstall your Windows operating system

hope that clears the doubt. Thank you