Lost system restore-I now no why.

[Murray]

I am not in the business of making false statements and
the reply, below, to my original post does a disservice
to the community. I paraphrased the error report from
my Event Viewer and noticed that all my restore points
were again gone. I believe my post to be accurate and
that this report should be followed up by Microsoft to
improve their product. I am not the only one to complain
of lost restore points. There are other reasons for lost
restore points, but, this is one that needs Microsoft's
attention.

I was playing some of my recorded music and sometimes the
recordings have a glitch in them that is not recognized
by the computer. System restore is always monitoring the
system and when there is an unknown glitch, it doesn't
know what to do and it stops monitoring the system. (I
saw this error message in the Event Viewer) When this
happens, it apparently wipes out all restore points.
This is a system restore software glitch.

As system restore only monitors the system/creates
automatic points when
it's completely idle, your 'glitches' are caused by
something else.

Therefore what you've posted is a complete fallacy.

 

[Willit]

Restore is not reliable. It's a marketing gimmick for MS.
You can turn it off from Control Panel > System > and then
re-boot and it will purge it's file. Then re-boot, turn it
back on.


You still have to deal the problem, it's a crap program,
that half works, half the time. It's like a parachute,
will it open if you need it ?? Maybe !!! It is not
isolated from any viruses and must be purged to keep from
a re-infection. If you use it, fine, Have I, yes !!! But I
learned the hard way about it's reliability, it can't be
trusted !!I It's too easy to use NTBack-up to back up your
system state, but not to a cd, cause that's another issue.
Save it to a folder then burn it. Oh, I forgot you may
have to install NTBackup since MS decided you did not need
it in XP Home, that 75% of users have. Oh, you have a OEM
and you don't have NTBackup Get it here :
http://www.onecomputerguy.com/software/ntbackup.msi

Do a real backup and get Erunt for your registry. It puts
a folder on your root dir with a installer.

http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/

If you're a true MS believer, Keep drinking the purple
cool-aid, the hale-bop comet is returning, they have room
for you !!

System Restore :: In MS's own words .......lol

"The System Restore feature of Windows XP enables you to
restore a PC, in the event of a problem, to a previous
state without losing personal data files. System Restore
actively monitors system file changes to record or store
previous versions before the changes occurred. With System
Restore, you never have to think about taking system
snapshots as it automatically creates easily identifiable
restore points, which allow you to restore the system to a
previous point in time."

"you never have to think about taking system snapshots"
Oh, really.

Learn more:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?
url=/technet/itcommunity/Newsgroups/FAQSRWXP.asp

 

[purplehaz]

Everything you posted here "may" be true (I actually love system restore it
has saved me 5 times, once just two days ago), but anyway......... let be
realistic here. The "glitch" in the op's mp3 did not stop system restore
from running. I don't see how a corrupted mp3 could do that, they have
nothing to do with each other as system restore will not monitor personal
files like mp3, so to system restore these files don't even exist. I know
you don't like SR and it good to post alternatives, but lets also let the op
know that his mp3 problems and system restore have nothing to do with each
other and if he wants to try to fix his problem, post more info and maybe
someone can help.

 

[Don Burnette]

Just curious, do you keep posting the below under different names?
I keep seeing it posted, however the name of the poster seems to continue to
change.

How exactly is it a marketing gimmick?
How can you blatantly state that it is not reliable ?

For what it is intended, it works pretty well for most part. It is not
designed, nor intended, to be a back up program.
Think of it as time travel, there most certainly can be complications at
times - ie the further back you try to travel, the higher chance of
complications.

When I have used it, it has done so successfully and exactly for what it is
intended for.
Just keep in mind what is is designed for and it's limitations, and you most
likely will not be dissappointed. I use it in comjuction with a good 3rd
party disc imaging program, and figure I am about as covered as I can be.
There can be problems with any of these type of programs though...

Don Burnette