WinXP and System Restore

[ft]

Recently I wanted to use system Restore
to go back to a particular Restore date and when I tried, XP told me
(after it re-booted) that is was unable to restore my system back to
the date I had choosen and to pick another date. I did just that, and
received the same result. Bottom line - NONE of the Restore dates work
anymore and there were 90 days worth to choice from. I tried all the
"fixes" I could find on the net including wiping out all the old
restore date data and starting from scratch. Once I did that, and
created my first Restore Point,
I immediately tried to restore that date - and it worked fine.
Thinking the problem was fixed, I let the system go back to
auto-creating Restore points for a week. Now, I went back and tested
them and, you guessed it, none of them work, including the first one
I created which DID work the first time! I have searched
the MS FAQ and Knowledge bases and Newsgroups but there is no
specific mention of this problem (there are numerous other Restore
issues but not this particular one). The Restore System capability is
a nice feature and I miss having it available. I even tried to do a
Restore on my machine after booting up in Safe Mode - still no good.
I've disabled Virus checkers, firewalls, everything I could think of -
no good. If anyones knows of any solutions/causes/fixes, I would great
appreciate hearing from you. Oh....all MS patches, security updates
and fixes are current and installed. I'm running WinXP with Service
Pack 1 installed on a PIV @2.4GHz with 512MB RAM and 80 GB HD (that
has 72 GBs free). Thank you for any assistance.

 

[Rob]

Ft,
When you go back in time, any Windows Update, that downloaded after the
restore date, does not count,as the updates don't exist, as far as the
stored file info is concerned.
You need to go back to the update site and see what it thinks you need
again.
There have been so many viruses floating around(in the past 90 days), that
you thought you were safe, but may not been.
Try running the Spybot and Aware freebies,& the 'and.doxdesk.com' web page.

Rob.

 

[Francesca]

Recently I wanted to use system Restore
to go back to a particular Restore date and when I tried, XP told me
(after it re-booted) that is was unable to restore my system back to
the date I had choosen and to pick another date. I did just that, and
received the same result. Bottom line - NONE of the Restore dates work
anymore and there were 90 days worth to choice from. I tried all the
"fixes" I could find on the net including wiping out all the old
restore date data and starting from scratch. Once I did that, and
created my first Restore Point,
I immediately tried to restore that date - and it worked fine.
Thinking the problem was fixed, I let the system go back to
auto-creating Restore points for a week. Now, I went back and tested
them and, you guessed it, none of them work, including the first one
I created which DID work the first time! I have searched
the MS FAQ and Knowledge bases and Newsgroups but there is no
specific mention of this problem (there are numerous other Restore
issues but not this particular one). The Restore System capability is
a nice feature and I miss having it available. I even tried to do a
Restore on my machine after booting up in Safe Mode - still no good.
I've disabled Virus checkers, firewalls, everything I could think of -
no good. If anyones knows of any solutions/causes/fixes, I would great
appreciate hearing from you. Oh....all MS patches, security updates
and fixes are current and installed. I'm running WinXP with Service
Pack 1 installed on a PIV @2.4GHz with 512MB RAM and 80 GB HD (that
has 72 GBs free). Thank you for any assistance.

 

[Francesca]

Hi,

This could be your problem,System Restore needs 200meg of free space on each
partition

in order for it to function.

Regards

Fran..........!!!!!


*has 72 GBs free).*


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[Rob]

Would you believe it took 7 days, to arrive, from the time I posted, the
original "re". say's a lot about my ISP, the speedy BigPond of Au.