System restore

[Guest]

My operating system is Windows XP SP2 and I have tried several times to
restore my computer to an earlier "system restore point" but with no success.
Every time I try, it goes thru the entire process and when the computer
reboots a new window opens and says "your computer cannot be restored, no
changes have been made." Is it necessary to have my hard drive partitioned
for system restore to work properly? I recently had to change my "mother
board", and I believe it was partitioned prior to that.

 

[Guest]

If you mean restore points before the MoBo replacement, forget it. You are
going to have to run a "repair' setup to totally recover from the
replacement, and the restore will only work 'from now on', and that only if
you turn OFF the restore option, restart and turn it back on. Then, and Only
then would the 'future' restore points work.

 

[Dad]

I had the same problem and found out that Norton Antivirus had to be changed
to allow rewrite. If this is your problem, go into Options-Miscellaneous of
NAR and uncheck the box where it says something about protecting NAR. This
worked for me.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Mark..it worked

If you mean restore points before the MoBo replacement, forget it. You are
going to have to run a "repair' setup to totally recover from the
replacement, and the restore will only work 'from now on', and that only if
you turn OFF the restore option, restart and turn it back on. Then, and Only
then would the 'future' restore points work.