--This means copy your documents to the "H" drive--

Your documents are usually in one of two places:

1. Desktop
2. My Documents (Windows XP) or Documents (Windows Vista)

The easiest way to get to and copy these folders is to copy your "My Documents" ("Documents" in Vista), "Desktop," and "Favorites" folders to your "H" drive.

One way to do this is:

1. Open "My Computer" (XP) or "Computer" (Vista)
    

   Vista	XP

    

2. Open your "H" drive
    

   Vista	XP

    

3. Make a folder in your "H" drive, and name it after today’s date.
    

   Vista	XP

    

4. Open the folder you just created.
    
5. Keeping that folder open, go back to "My Computer"
    
6. Open your hard drive ("C")
    
7. Open "Documents and Settings" (XP) or "Users" (Vista)
    

   Vista	XP

8. Find, and open, the folder named after your login id. (e.g. "sgolanka")
   1. Note:  If you have worked on more than one campus, there may be more than one folder named after your login.  Choose the one with your current campus appended to the name (e.g. sgolanka.wc).

Vista	XP

That is it.  You can close any folders that are open.

Note:  sometimes, a file that is corrupted or in use will not allow itself to be copied.  Unfortunately, a file like this stops the copying process.  You may have to use the procedure above, but go further into the folders (My Documents, Desktop, Favorites), and copy the individual files and folders inside the "big" folder.  If you just try to re-copy, you will likely end up stuck at the same place again.