system restore vista not restoring

[Jane]

Help does anyone know why i can not get system restore to be successfull,no
matter which restore point i use i always get the error message that it did
not complete successfully, details= An unspecified error occurered during
system restore.
A couple of months ago i wiped my laptop and reloaded vista again because i
couldnt restore, i dont want to do this again can anyone help, have any
suggestions please.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

System Restore in Windows Vista: http://bertk.mvps.org/html/vista.html

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[John Inzer]

Help does anyone know why i can not get system restore to be
successfull,no matter which restore point i use i always get the
error message that it did not complete successfully, details= An
unspecified error occurered during system restore.
A couple of months ago i wiped my laptop and reloaded vista again
because i couldnt restore, i dont want to do this again can anyone
help, have any suggestions please.

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The failure of System Restore could be
caused by a conflict with other software...
quite possibly a virus scanner. Best bet
would be to perform the System Restore
in Safe Mode.

Maybe the following articles will offer
some ideas:

Using Windows Vista
System Restore
http://tinyurl.com/2qhd77
or...
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-windows-vista-system-restore/

Windows Vista -
What Is Safe Mode
http://tinyurl.com/2mpeef
or...
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/d063548a-3fc9-4723-99f3-b12a0c4354a81033.mspx

Windows Vista -
Start your computer in safe mode
http://tinyurl.com/397vhf
or...
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/323ef48f-7b93-4079-a48a-5c58eec904a11033.mspx

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John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Jane" <[email protected]>

| Help does anyone know why i can not get system restore to be successfull,no
| matter which restore point i use i always get the error message that it did
| not complete successfully, details= An unspecified error occurered during
| system restore.
| A couple of months ago i wiped my laptop and reloaded vista again because i
| couldnt restore, i dont want to do this again can anyone help, have any
| suggestions please.

Perform a System Restore in Safe Mode.

 

[sinjun4244]

I solved the same problem on Vista. See my answer to the query immediately
below yours.