System Restore Is Not Able to Create a Restore Point

[Chris Sherlock]

I'm using Windows XP Pro Home Edition (Service Pack 2) on an HP Pavillion
a250y desktop. I have noticed recently that there are no system restore
points on my computer. A check of the Event Viewer seems to indicate that
my computer has unsuccessfully tried to create five system restore points in
the past four days. If I right-click on any of the unsuccessful system
restore attempts listed to view the error properties and then click on the
hyperlink associated with the error properties, I get a message indicating
that System Restore will automatically restart if I manually create a
restore point. However, when I try to do this, I get the message contained
in the subject line. Does anyone know of a way to fix this problem? Thanks
for any suggestions.

 

[Rich Barry]

Chris, check at Kelly's http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_abc.htm
Select S and scroll to System Restore.

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Chris,

Look to see if any of the Source and EventID's in Event Viewer match
the errors in this article.
You Cannot Create a Restore Point with a HighPoint Driver Installed
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=322246

More information.
System Restore fails to create an automatic restore point
http://home.earthlink.net/~mvp_bert/html/srauto.html