System Restore Problem

[Andy]

Why do I lose all my restore points and my restore system program shut down
when I re-boot my pc?

Andy.

 

[Lester Stiefel]

Why do I lose all my restore points and my restore system program shut down
when I re-boot my pc?

Andy.

Is it enabled at "services control panel" as well as "system control
panel". The points are normally lost if the restore sectionis either
goofed up or disabled.

 

[TaurArian [MVP]]

Hi Andy,

Some good info on System Restore:

See MVP Bert Kinney's System Restore web page at
http://bertk.mvps.org/index.html

System Restore "Restore Points" Are Missing or Deleted
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;301224

How the System Restore Tool Handles Hard-Disk Space Usage
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q300044

System Restore Tool Displays a Blank Calendar in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q313853

Troubleshooting System Restore in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=302796

System Restore FAQ:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/faqsrwxp.mspx

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Andy,

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 diagnosing 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.

How do I use the Event Viewer to search for System Restore logs?
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/tips.html#EventViewer

Here are some more links for troubleshooting System Restore.

System Restore Failures to restore:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srfail.html

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

 

[Andy]

Hi Bert,

No sr listings but lots of srservice listings, all reading as below with
different dates/time.



Event Type: Information
Event Source: SRService
Event Category: None
Event ID: 115
Date: 10/29/2005
Time: 1:45:36 PM
User: N/A
Computer: DUKE
Description:
System Restore monitoring was enabled on all drives.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.


Back to you,

Andy.






----- Original Message -----
From: "Bert Kinney" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 5:44 AM
Subject: Re: System Restore Problem

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Andy,

When you run SR, do you receive any error messages?

 

[Andy]

Hi Bert,

I can't as every time I boot up SR is switched off and when I switch it back
on all restore points are lost.

I can switch SR back on and create a new retore point, however, as soon as I
switch off and re-boot, SR is switched off again and the restore point is
lost.

Very annoying!

Andy.

 

[Andy]

Further

I just realised the SR service I sent was an odd one out,

most reports read thus...................

Event Type: Information
Event Source: SRService
Event Category: None
Event ID: 116
Date: 10/29/2005
Time: 5:12:38 PM
User: N/A
Computer: DUKE
Description:
System Restore monitoring was disabled on all drives.


Andy.









For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

 

[Bert Kinney]

Hi Andy,

Reinstall System Restore:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/tips.html#ReinstallSR

Stop SR form monitoring all drives/partitions other than the one Windows
is installed on, and see if that helps.

 

[coal_brona]

Hi,

I recommend using Active@ undelete tool to restore lost data. This data
recovery utility worked great for me and never failed before. For DOS
Uneraser can be used.

http://www.active-undelete.com/

http://www.uneraser.com/