Choose 'OK' to acknowledge the 'Welcome to Microsoft Backup' screen. Folders, files, and drives can be selected at this point. When an entire drive or folder and its contents are selected, a check mark will appear with a white background. Check marks with a gray background indicate that only part of the contents of that drive or folder have been selected. Choose 'Next Step'.
Backup locations can be a tape drive, a floppy disk, or a path on a hard drive or network drive.
Choose 'Start Backup'. Defragment a hard drive. Open 'Disk Defragmenter' in 'System Tools' from the 'Accessories' menu. Consolidate free space only'. Select 'ScanDisk' from the 'Systems Tools' menu in 'Accessories'.