# Thank Og for system restore!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 15, 2005, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-og-for-system-restore/331164 "2005-11-15T15:28:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-og-for-system-restore/331164/1 "2005-11-15T15:28:20Z")
I tried to add a second (apparently Non-MS supported) TV tuner card on the machine and after installing the drivers and the appropriate software and then the eventual re-start, the computer was all fouled up. The DVD drives we’re disabled, the sound card had issues, and there were the yellow ! next to a dozen more items in the device manager’s list of devices. Holy crap!, I thought. I tried to uninstall the drivers and the software that caused the problem but that didn’t work. I thought to myself that the last time something like this happened on the Win98 machine it took half a day to fix. Thank Og this is a newer machine with WinXP and a system restore option… Rolled back the time to the last checkpoint and everything was honky-dorry. Question; Will the restore erase any data that was stored on the HD? After the system restore, the computer popped up a window that said something to the effect that “you have recovered from a critical system error, would you like to send an error report?”. No thanks, I’ll just pretend this never happened. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-og-for-system-restore/331164/2 "2005-11-15T15:30:20Z")
> [@Uncommon Sense](#): > > Question; Will the restore erase any data that was stored on the HD? No. Restore only changes installed software and system changes.