Unable to create restore points or access old ones

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Hi to all you wonderful people, have read some of the answers re:- system
restore, but non of the questions seem to fit my problem.

Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 2
Hard Drive 250 gigs - 53 gig used

When I open up it originally gave me the option of todays date and the
previous restore point was March 21st and backwards from there. Non of them
worked. I tried to make a new restore point for today and it said

"System restore is not able to create a store point. Please restart the
computer, and then run system restore again"

I tried this several times, still no luck. Went to microsoft and ended up
here. I read a couple of posts that gave me hope, so I switched off the
system restore, rebooted, in the hope of starting afresh, again, no such
luck. Still the same message comes up. I have checked that the Task Manager
and the System Restore are running and it appears they are.

I have read further that I really need to keep these restore points up to
date, and which I will do so if I can get them working, any ideas good folk.

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Half the cure of a problem is identifying it - wise questions are half the
solution.

To every problem under the sun
Theres a remedy - or non
If theres one - find it
If theres non - never mind it

 

[TaurArian [MS-MVP]]

You may find some answers on this site dedicated to SR -
http://bertk.mvps.org/index.html
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http://bertk.mvps.org/html/error.html#ErrorUnableToCreate


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| Hi to all you wonderful people, have read some of the answers re:- system
| restore, but non of the questions seem to fit my problem.
|
| Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 Service Pack 2
| Hard Drive 250 gigs - 53 gig used
|
| When I open up it originally gave me the option of todays date and the
| previous restore point was March 21st and backwards from there. Non of them
| worked. I tried to make a new restore point for today and it said
|
| "System restore is not able to create a store point. Please restart the
| computer, and then run system restore again"
|
| I tried this several times, still no luck. Went to microsoft and ended up
| here. I read a couple of posts that gave me hope, so I switched off the
| system restore, rebooted, in the hope of starting afresh, again, no such
| luck. Still the same message comes up. I have checked that the Task Manager
| and the System Restore are running and it appears they are.
|
| I have read further that I really need to keep these restore points up to
| date, and which I will do so if I can get them working, any ideas good folk.
|
| --
| Half the cure of a problem is identifying it - wise questions are half the
| solution.
|
| To every problem under the sun
| Theres a remedy - or non
| If theres one - find it
| If theres non - never mind it