System resore...

[Guest]

I am unable to restore system to an earlier date. Could u help

 

[John Barnett MVP]

Is that because you have no restore points or is it because you are
receiving an error message of some sort?
Have you checked that system restore is actually monitoring the drive you
want to restore? (Go to control panel and click the system icon. in the
system properties click the system restore tab and make sure that the
'status' in the available drive section says 'monitoring'

 

[kurttrail]

I am unable to restore system to an earlier date. Could u help

Sorry, I'm not inclined to help out impatient morons, but I think that
your misspelling is a little more accurate the second time around.

"System Resore!" ROFL!

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[Guest]

At times, the Restore files become corrupted. You will not be able to
Restore. Turn off and clean out System Restore by moving the available disk
space slider to zero. Reboot and go back to reset it and turn it back on. You
can set a new Restore point.

 

[Guest]

I cannot restore as when I do it the PC does something and when it finally
restarts there is a note to say System could not be resotred to an earlier
point.

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Sada,

Hi,

Here are some troubleshooting tips for System Restore in Windows XP.
Please post the event information from Event Viewer as suggested in
the page below so we can figure out what's going on with System
Restore.
System Restore Failures to restore:
http://home.earthlink.net/~mvp_bert/html/srfail.html

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://dts-l.org/

 

[Surfer]

I've had issues with System Restore. It has actually rolled back documents
and downloads as well as Windows. Another "fun" thing about System Restore
is that it will tuck all kinds of files into the System Volume Information
(hidden) folder for later restoration (things like trojan viruses!) and then
keep them locked.

Here's a recommendation (any additions or modifications to this suggestion
welcome):

With your personal files and settings saved to backup media (tapes, CDs or
DVDs) wipe your hard drive and install Windows XP on a separate partition,
large enough to hold the operating system (Windows) with all your favorite
programs. The other partition is used to keep your documents and downloads.

After installing Windows deselect the documents/download drive in respect to
System Restore. This way downloads and documents are not affected.

For maintenance ensure to create restore points before the installation of a
program or a set of programs. Name the restore points carefully. You can now
restore your system to a previous point if a rogue program upsets it.

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi,

< Comments inline >

I've had issues with System Restore. It has actually
rolled back documents and downloads as well as Windows.

System Restore does not monitor document files or files in the My
Documents folder.
Monitored File Types in System Restore
http://home.earthlink.net/~mvp_bert/html/filetypes.html

Another "fun" thing about System Restore is that it will
tuck all kinds of files into the System Volume
Information (hidden) folder for later restoration

System Restore uses the System Volume Information folder and it's sub
folders to store the files necessary to perform a restore. This is by
design.

(things like trojan viruses!) and then keep them locked.

There are viruses that add malicious files to the SVI folder. These
viruses are inert until the system is restored.

Here's a recommendation (any additions or modifications
to this suggestion welcome):

With your personal files and settings saved to backup
media (tapes, CDs or DVDs)

Agreed, any files not backed up will be eventually be lost.

wipe your hard drive and
install Windows XP on a separate partition, large enough
to hold the operating system (Windows) with all your
favorite programs. The other partition is used to keep
your documents and downloads.

IMO this is a good practice, but is not necessary if personal data is
backed up regularly.
Note: Keeping downloaded files in the My Documents folder will keep
them from being monitored by SR.

After installing Windows deselect the documents/download
drive in respect to System Restore. This way downloads
and documents are not affected.

Again, most data, and all image files are not monitored by System
Restore.

For maintenance ensure to create restore points before
the installation of a program or a set of programs. Name
the restore points carefully. You can now restore your
system to a previous point if a rogue program upsets it.

Fully agree.

"Sada" wrote

Take a look at these troubleshooting steps.
System Restore fails to create an automatic restore point
http://home.earthlink.net/~mvp_bert/html/srauto.html