Lost restore points

[BobSmith]

This morning I needed to use a restore point but when I
tried there was no record of any. I created a new one and
that appeared OK. I don't believe it is a space problem
as I have 1095 MB allocated.

Where are restore points saved on the hard drive? I would
like to recover them from my backup.

 

[Edward]

Check that System Restore has not been disabled, Bob.

You can try Start/Run, type services.msc and scroll to System Restore in
'Extended' and click Restart.

Ed

 

[Guest]

Ed,
Thanks. System restore is enabled and running so that's
not the problem.
Bob

 

[Gordon Burgess-Parker]

Ed,
Thanks. System restore is enabled and running so that's
not the problem.
Bob

But have you actually DONE anything to create a Resore point like install
new hardware drivers or something like that? XP only creates a Restore point
automatically when certain actions are taken.

Have a look here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/techart/Windowsxpsystemrestore.htm

 

[Guest]

Gordon,

Thanks for the link.

Yes, there were restore points. I created a manual one a
few days ago and an automatic one was created by a
windows update a few days before that. Several should
have been visible.

The calendar displayed for selecting restore points shows
nothing for October, except the one I put in this morning
to check the system was working. I cannot select
September.

Bob

-----Original Message-----

But have you actually DONE anything to create a Resore
point like install new hardware drivers or something like
that? XP only creates a Restore point automatically when
certain actions are taken.

Have a look here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?
URL=/library/techart/Windowsxpsystemrestore.htm