System restore not working

[Dan]

I'm running XP Pro with SP2. I've tried a couple of times in the past month
or so to run system restore. This last time, I tried restoring to a restore
point from earlier today. But when the computer rebooted it said "No
changes have been made to your computer. Could not restore to restore point
X".

I went in to control panel/system/system restore to make sure the "turn off
system restore" wasn't checked, and it is not. I've also go lots of room on
the hard drive (80% free on a 120 gb drive), so that's not it.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Dan

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

One or more of the System Restore files could have been corrupted - try
turning SR off/on - but I'm afraid that you will lose any existing
checkpoints:

Right click My Computer, select Properties and then the System Restore tab.
Enable 'Turn off System Restore on all drives' and reboot your PC. After
that 1st reboot go back into SR and disable 'Turn off System Restore on all
drives' and reboot your PC again. After that 2nd reboot you should have one
new SR checkpoint.