Originally posted by: adywan
I would like to thanks everyone for your help. i haven't resolved the issue yet but i'm hoping to soon. i really hope that i don't have to do a reinstall of windows xp though because i have too much stuff that i just can't back up (settings etc). my only other route at the moment is to buy a cheap hard drive, take out my C drive and install windows on this so i can at least get the encoding done. That will have to wait until the end of the month when we get paid though. hopefully it won't have to come to that.

To everyone that kindly PM'd me recently then i'm sorry but i haven't had a chance to reply as yet because of everything that is going on here, but i will reply as soon as possible.

Have you tried a good backup utility to save your settings? I'm told Norton Ghost is very good (I haven't used it myself though).

So I guess you won't have the DVDR done this weekend... bummer! In any case, good luck.

As for having your TV blow out, I'd suggest visiting your local library or university library (take along a pair of headphones of course!). Most libraries these days have televisions hooked up to DVD players (or else PC's that have DVD drives installed). This should allow you to run the movie and make sure it looks proper. Of course only the most sophisticated will have widescreen monitors/TVs, but some even let you check out a laptop for awhile and some of these have widescreen displays.