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Restore Disc?
Did your PC come with a recovery disc instead of a "proper" Windows installation disc? An increasing number of machines are shipped with these to cut back on costs. While they allow you to get your system back to its factory settings they're very inflexible and can put your data at risk if you've repartitioned your drive to separate your documents from Windows.
Panic not, for it's perfectly possible to create an installation CD from the files on your hard drive or recovery disc.
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Re: Verifying data burns
I've never used it, but it looks good enough.
I recently burned a backup of my last two year's work to DVD, and got a verify error in CDBurnerXP. However, the log pinpointed that the error failed on a single file (a Word template file), so I could at l...
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Verifying data burns
Is there any reliable way of verifying data written to a CD or DVD is a reliable and readable copy? Nero burnt two DVDs and then failed on the verify, but I think (from accessing them via Explorer) that they are OK. I can't reasonably open every file t...
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Re: Any Nero 9 users out there?
I made the mistake too and upgraded to Nero 9 (but only installed what I needed). Anyway, I used it to burn data to two DVD disks at once and the burn went OK, but the verify failed. Yet when I tried to access the files that failed in the verify via Ex...
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