Hello.

It seems that the only way to rid my computer of the software problems is to use the restore disc.

The problem is that this will wipe all my files.

Normally I'd put them on cd but the CD writer won't work.

can anyone reccomend a good (free) online storage site?

Also can anyone see a problem with sending my files to an online store and then retreiving them.

Any help appreciated.

Cheers

Chris

Chris, if you have got a reasonable amount of data to back up you should really take a trip to PC World or Staples (probably any computer retailer) and get yourself a USB backup drive. The 250Gb model is less than £90 and you then have total security.

i would do the same...

or partition your harddisk...

and just clean the partition wich you don't need..

TKs

http://www.yousendit.com/ a gig at a time or gmail

Imagine you're speaking to a small child.

Partition the disk?

How does that "yousendit" work?

jesus I'm thick.

Cheers

Chris

Partitioning the drive means breaking say a 40Gb drive into two 20Gb drives so windows sees it as a c: drive and say a d: drive. You can then copy all your data to D: , so allowing you to reinstall Windows to C: without losing the data. However without additional software like Partition Magic this isnt easy to do so and its not something you want to jump into without a bit of computer knowledge so I would avoid.
As has been mentioned, an external USB hard drive would be ideal, you can pick up 80Gb ones like this for under £60 and it would be a good way of backing up in future, to keep your data safe. Alternatively, you could look a buying a cheap internal hard drive, on the same ebuyer website you can pick up an IDE drive for about £30 and its pretty simple to plug one into your PC, a quick google should bring up a step by step.
ONline storage is OK but Im not sure Id trust it, and if youve got lots of data (ie over 1Gb) then it will take ages and maybe cost a fair bit.