Cannot restore system to an earlier date

[Jamie larkin]

Can someone help me. I have been trying to restore my system to an earlier
date but can't.

I click on the calendar within system restore for a previous date which is
highlighted, then the system restore starts. But after the system reboots I
get the following message.
Cannot restore system to an earlier date no changes have been made.

I have Windows XP PRO SP2, all windows security updates are up to date as of
13/11/2005.

Please Help

 

[TaurArian [MVP]]

See MVP Bert Kinney's System Restore web page at
http://bertk.mvps.org/index.html
and also take a look at Bert Kenney's article here:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/error.html#ErrorRestorationIncomplete

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

That error message would suggest that one or more of the System Restore
files have become corrupt. You can try turning SR off/on, although you will
lose all existing checkpoints:

Right click on My Computer and select Properties>System Restore. Enable
'Turn off System Restore on all drives' - then reboot your PC. Go back into
SR and disable 'Turn off...' and then reboot again. After the second reboot
you should have one new checkpoint and SR should work properly after that.

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Will Denny
MS MVP Windows Shell/User
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[Gerry Cornell]

Jamie

Why do you want to restore your system to an earlier date?


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Hope this helps.

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[Bert Kinney]

Hi,

There are several reasons this may occur. Let's take a look at Event
Viewer for any System Restore logs that may have been created recently
that may help us diagnosing the problem.

Go to Start - Run and type eventvwr.msc and press enter.
Click on System in the left pane.
Click the gray title “Source” at the top of the source name column in
the right pane to sort by source name, look for "sr" and "srservice".
Double click on each of these events, then click on the button below the
two arrows in the upper right corner. This will copy the event
information to the clipboard. Paste the information for each of the two
event here. There’s no need to post duplicate Event ID’s.

How do I use the Event Viewer to search for System Restore logs?
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/tips.html#EventViewer

Here are some more links for troubleshooting System Restore.

System Restore Failures to restore:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srfail.html

System Restore fails to create an automatic restore point:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srauto.html