[danayanch]

Hi all,

I recently bought a PB 12 inch from apple (newest version)....Now it was working fine for aboue 2 months.

I have a constant problem of kernal panicks while the computer is shutting down. This only happens if I leave the computer on for 5 or so hours or more....So im guessing there is a software problem.

I would like to restore all the OSX defaults and files back to the way they were when I first bought the machine, and I see that they provided some restore disks. Now I would go ahead and do this but I have one problem:

I have many documents, family pictures, and videos that I cannot loose whatsoever. They are all very important and of sentamental value.

I really don't want to go through all the trouble of backing it all up onto millions of CD-R's....

Can I use this system restore CD that came with the computer, without loosing all my criticle files?

This would be very helpful if I could get a nice answer.

Thank you very much in advance

Dana Y.

[dwood]

so aside from that your hoping your hd never ever dies? go buy an external hd? do the restore disks give you the option to archive and install like the os x retail disks?