file backup

How do I write protect a DVD-R after burning files that I want to permanently back up? I've burned jpg images to a DVD+R for permanent backup with windows 7 drag & drop. I close the DVD burn session which I have read "finalizes" it but when I load the DVD I can still burn or delete files on it...

Hello, I have one internal drive with 1 TB. The data there is very important to me , so I bought External removable drive for backup. Now, I want to copy the data from one drive to the second drive but I have to be sure I have a perfect copy of the data. The data is mostly songs movies and...

Hi – I am trying to setup a Win7 Pro PC backup so that the primary user does not have any admin rights. Setup Standard user login and then another separate login for file backups. Created a new login called Backup1, and assigned this User Account to the Backup Operators Group, and Users Group...

HI - I'm building a W7 PRo PC for a local club and want to lock down the PC. I have setup an Admin account, and set the main user account as a Standard account. I also want them to be able to use W7 Backup/Restore to backup the Standard Users "My Documents" folder to memory stick on a weekly...

I have a new computer build where I have Win 7 Pro 64-bit installed on a SSD. Then I have a pair of 1TB drives that I setup as mirroring drives in Disc Management. I proceeded to setup my windows backup to the mirrored drive, but it is giving me the warning: When restoring a system...

Hello All, Would really appreciate some help. I initially had 1 500gb dynamic disk, with one partition containing all my documents and windows files. I created a partition in the free space to copy my documents into so I could overwrite Windows keeping my documents intact. However I...

I have a WD Ext Hardrive Drive. I backed up my files at the office (Windows 7 OP System) yesterday. I wanted to access a file at home (PC loaded with Windows XP), but when I plugged in the Ext HD , a message comes up "USB Device not recognised -one of the USB devices attached to this computer...

Fixes a problem in which a backup fails with an "0x81000038" error message in Windows 7. More...

Fixes a problem in which a backup fails and you receive error code 0x81000015 on a computer that is running Windows 7. More...

Recently I used my external HD as the location for the BackUp Windows insisted I do. But backup doesn't tell you how much space it will occupy and I realized I didn't have as much as I thought I needed on my HD, so I stopped it. But now my HD logo and properties have changed. The logo looks like...

Hi all: I recently had to do a clean install on my PC - 3rd time in as many months. I had a friend reinstall windows and he put the ultimate (?) on instead of the home premium. 1) Now when I start up I get a dos window that says this: choose operating system of press tab: Windows 7...

Hi guys, Here is the story of my sad spiral into doom: 1) I use a SmartNav head tracker (hands-free mouse). One day it started giving choppy performance in first person shooters. It seemed to be due to a dodgy webcam driver I'd installed. No problem, right? I used Win7 restore points to...

Hi, i currently have Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit & i want to upgrade it to Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit & i see the upgrade option when i boot from the cd but what i want to know is this, will i lose all my files that is in my user folder, my docs, roaming & desktop or will it just upgrade the OS...

Hi, I am having serious problems with my PC at the moment. It started a couple of days ago when an error appears on one of my hard drives (second drive) during bootup, but after the first encounter I logged into windows fine and thought nothing of it. A while after my desktop froze and I was...

Just bought a 1TB external hard drive for use to back up files and system. Now, i understand Windows 7 backup will not back up Program Files and System files even if they are selected, instead that i done by creating a system image. Am i correct in saying that when i go to 'Let me choose' in the...

There is a problem with my computer after i did a 5 hour chkdisk scan for errors. After the scan was over and had logged into windows, I have noticed that in "My Computer" there are 2 new hard drives partitions made. The first partition is "local disk F" and the second partition is "system...

Windows 7 Home Premium, Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600, 64 Bit I set up Backup to use a large external ESATA drive. It worked fine for weeks, until I swapped the port the drive was plugged into. Backup then could no longer see the drive, even though it showed up in My Computer and I could copy...

I have just upgraded from Vista to 7. That went well. Before I performed the upgrade I carried out a backup to a second HDD for the first time. I have just gone to search the back up and have dicscovered it is in 149 seperate files and one global catalogue. Apart from going through every file...

I currently have Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit installed on my system. Was dual booting Windows Server 2008 on a second hard drive. I just put Server on the other day to play around with to get familiar with it and it has been working fine. I adjusted in 7 to make it the primary OS so Server would...

I used to use Windows Vista backup, and it wasn't perfect but it got the job done for me. So now I've set up Windows 7 Backup to run once a week to an external hdd on a home server I have set up on my local network. So anyway, that all went well and it backed up the roughly 55 gigs I was...