Restore to a earlier date

[Guest]

I would like to know if I can restore to like a month previous. I go to
restore, and it only black outs a few previous days. Can it be done?

 

[peter]

Apparently not ...or at least not on your present system.
If there are only a few dates showing thats all you can restore to.If you
have allocated 10% of your HD for restore it will save up to that 10% and
then delete the old to make way for the new.
The amount of restore space that you have allocated determines the number of
restore points available.
A month back is an awful lot of wasted space...........a week is good but
you need to set the space accordingly.

peter

 

[Guest]

At the top of the restore point calendar there should be arrows to go back
month by month. Try that, mine has that option.

 

[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 diagnose 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/source.html

Here are some more links for troubleshooting System Restore.

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

Disappearing Restore Points:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/missingrps.html

 

[Guest]

hi peter, right i am going crazy with this,i can't get it to go back (well
only one day)My son ,,,who is away at the moment can get his to go back
months. is there anything i have to do with my setting to make this
happen.....please reply in plain english,as i am no pc wizard