System Restore results in "Cannot Restore"

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Opusita

Hello,

I had posted asking questions regarding the "System Restore" procedure. The
response was a link to MS FAQ's pertaining to the System Restore.

Anyway, after reading the FAQ's I decided that a System Restore might indeed
clean up my machine to a prior time.....but after going through the
procedure for numerous dates past the results were all the same....something
akin to "your system cannot be restored to ******". So I now question what
good is it?

Marian
 
O

Opusita

Hello Alex,

Thank you for your response.

Reading between the lines and from my recent experience I sure wouldn't
advise anyone to depend on "System Restore".

Marian


Opusita said:
Anyway, after reading the FAQ's I decided that a System Restore might indeed
clean up my machine to a prior time.....but after going through the
procedure for numerous dates past the results were all the same....something
akin to "your system cannot be restored to ******". So I now question what
good is it?

It is a short term facility, and you may have something damaged down its
chain before getting back to the time you wanted. If something like
that happens to get it in a tangle, it is probably sensible to clear it
out and let it start clean too. System Restore. Check 'Disable System
Restore, and OK, reboot. Now have Folder Options - View set to show
Hidden files, and *not* Hide Protected mode ones and delete everything
in the System Volume Information folder on each drive

Start SR up again, and I suggest reviewing the settings for each drive.
There is not much point having it enabled on data drives, and on ones
with System or Programs I would reduce the space allotted if more than
say 1GB - I use 500MB, the minimum is 200 which will only handle maybe a
week of points. But the default of 12% of a drive seems too much for
its own good on modern large drives
 

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