[newlight1]

Just wondering if anyone knew how I could restore my PC to a point earleir when it worked properly WITHOUT losing my documents and vidoes. I haev some documents in a protected folder http://www.iobit.com/password-protected-folder.html

So something that wouldnt erase that either

And if there happened to be something that did go missing if I restored tit to an earlier point, is there anyway to go back forward to todays date?

Thanks in Advance.

[Maxatoria]

before messing with anything its good to have a backup on a second physical device and for backup purposes its better not to be password protected so you could get a small usb hard drive and copy all your docs to it and then attempt to do something as theres nothing louder than the scream of someone who's just realised they've nuked all their data

but the reason is why you want to restore back as well? if its viruses/malware then you can try to clear it but its probably better to start from scratch but if its an OS restore then i'm afraid the best bet is to backup data/reinstall OS/programs and then restore your data.

[MrQuike]

Had to do a restore on my XP desktop today. I deleted something I shouldn't have and locked myself out of windows.
I did a restrore back to Sunday afternoon and everything is back to normal now. I believe I read a message during the restore saying that you don't lose any documents or files that you may have created since the restore date. You can also revert back to the latest restore date anyway. I think restore only affects the system files and settings. Works great when you need it...

[newlight1]

OK, thanks the reason I want to restore is because my DVD burner does not burn DVDs anymore, so thats why I was going to restore it as have tried everything else?

[Maxatoria]

its always possible that your burners gone faulty and cant burn dvd's anymore but can read since they use different lasers to read/write data and it'll be a waste of time to spend half a day just to find out that its a fubar'd drive

so try deleting the drive from in the device manager and rebooting

[newlight1]

Yes have deleted the drives and rebooted and new ones installed, still same DVDAuthour Error message it burns Music fine .... but not DVDs?

[Maxatoria]

tried just burning a data dvd full of crap using a different program as it'll prove if its the actual hardware ?

[newlight1]

tried just burning a data dvd full of crap using a different program as it'll prove if its the actual hardware ?

Thanks how would I burn a DVD full of rubbish? Like documents you mean? I know the DVD works when I burn Music to a CD-R disk just fine?

[humptymcnumpty]

Originally Posted by newlight1

tried just burning a data dvd full of crap using a different program as it'll prove if its the actual hardware ?

Thanks how would I burn a DVD full of rubbish? Like documents you mean? I know the DVD works when I burn Music to a CD-R disk just fine?

If you are saying that it burns CDs but not DVDs that is because there is a seperate laser for CDs and DVDs. DVD laser night need cleaning or you might need a new rewriter.
I had a similar problem once but mine would burn DVDs but not CDs

[Daedroth]

Originally Posted by newlight1

tried just burning a data dvd full of crap using a different program as it'll prove if its the actual hardware ?

Thanks how would I burn a DVD full of rubbish? Like documents you mean? I know the DVD works when I burn Music to a CD-R disk just fine?

Just fill up a DVD disc with useless documents, files, anything to take up that 4.7GB.

Like humptymcnumpty said, burning a CD doesn't prove that the DVD portion works.