Vanishing restore points on drive C:

[Qu0ll]

Vista Ultimate x64
C: 50GB
D: 280GB

I have configured System Protection to protect drives C: and D: but the
restore points on drive C: go missing after a day or so. The restore points
on drive D: are being retained.

I have tried creating manual restore points and it creates them without any
problems - other than that they disappear some hours later. It does create
daily restore points but they too are vanishing after a while.

There is over 15GB of free space on drive C: and in all other respects the
system is working perfectly.

Any suggestions as to how to get the restore points to be retained?

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[Michael Walraven]

Are you running any system cleanup/optimizing programs? Some are a bit
over-aggressive in what they remove.

Michael

 

[Qu0ll]

Are you running any system cleanup/optimizing programs? Some are a bit
over-aggressive in what they remove.

Thanks but no, nothing like that. I have Crap Cleaner but it is not running
and the problem was there before I installed it.

Any other suggestions/ideas?

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[Richard Urban]

Sometimes the system restore cache becomes corrupt. You can try this, but
you will loose all points that you may have saved.

Go to Computer | Properties | Advanced System Settings | System Protection

Turn off restore on all drives. Reboot. Then do the above a 2nd time and
turn on protection for your selected drives. This will have cleared out the
old cache and will begin the formation of a new one. See if it works now.

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[Qu0ll]

Sometimes the system restore cache becomes corrupt. You can try this, but
you will loose all points that you may have saved.

Go to Computer | Properties | Advanced System Settings | System Protection

Turn off restore on all drives. Reboot. Then do the above a 2nd time and
turn on protection for your selected drives. This will have cleared out
the > old cache and will begin the formation of a new one. See if it works
now.

OK thanks Richard, I'll give it a go and report back in a day or so.

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[Qu0ll]

OK thanks Richard, I'll give it a go and report back in a day or so.

Sadly, it didn't work - the C: drive restore point has been blown away
already.

How can I get restore points created on the C: drive to persist?

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[Richard Urban]

Are you dual booting with Windows XP?

Are you doing a boot time defrag with PerfectDisk?

Both of these things will delete restore points.

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[Qu0ll]

Are you dual booting with Windows XP?

No, Vista is the only OS on the machine.

Are you doing a boot time defrag with PerfectDisk?

No, I am not.

It must be something else - any other ideas? It is a serious situation to
not be able to use System Restore.

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[Guest]

I have the same problem you have. I have my system set up with a boot
manager that eliminates the problem of erasing the restore points when dual
booting. But even when I don't boot into the other OS (which I seldom do),
my restore points disappear after a few days to a week. I also get no
automatic restore points created at the beginning of a day/boot. When I
first installed Vista, I think I had restore points that were over a week
old. My drive is 1/3 empty and has over 15GB free, so I don't think it would
be throwing them out for space reasons.

I've seen other posts about this problem and wonder if MS is investigating.
I use the MS disk cleanup, but do not request that my restore points be
removed...only the temp files, trash, etc.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Dual Booting Vista and XP by any chance ???

 

[Guest]

No, as I stated, this happens with no dual booting. XP can't even see the
Vista operating system with the boot manager I have, but I lose the restore
points even when I don't boot to XP at all (I seldom do and will probably
remove it altogether sometime in the near future.)

 

[Guest]

I do believe that Microsoft should look into the problem we seem to have over
'Restore Points'. I often try out new programs / hardware to see what works
the best for me.

What happens is there are several restore points where new items have been
tried and removed again due to problems/drivers. However I can't turn back to
an earlier restore point say 3 devices earlyer and in the lat 2 weeks I have
at least 10 restore points created automatically which I do not want! So if
something does not work you are stuck with it or a re-format etc again. While
this continues I can not see companies changing over to Vista in the droves
that Microsoft would like. It is home users that drive bussness. If I go to a
company and they ask me if I use Vista at all and do I have any problems with
Vista and what is the true compatabilty like? What am I to say other than my
personial experances?