system restore points disappear

[David McGuire]

my system restore points totally disappear every week or
so. I will check one day and there will be several
restore points listed and then the next day they are all
gone and I have no restore points. Can anybody help me
so that all my restore points don't disappear.

Thank you,

[Sharon F]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 05:48:50 -0700, David McGuire wrote:

> my system restore points totally disappear every week or
> so. I will check one day and there will be several
> restore points listed and then the next day they are all
> gone and I have no restore points. Can anybody help me
> so that all my restore points don't disappear.
>
> Thank you,

There are a few reasons for System Restore to reset:

System Restore "Restore Points" Are Missing or Deleted
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;301224

The System Restore Utility May Be Suspended on a System Drive Even Though
There Is Enough Disk Space
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;299904

Troubleshooting System Restore in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;302796
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Sharon F
MS-MVP - Windows XP Shell/User

[David McGuire]

>-----Original Message-----
>On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 05:48:50 -0700, David McGuire wrote:
>
>> my system restore points totally disappear every week
or
>> so. I will check one day and there will be several
>> restore points listed and then the next day they are
all
>> gone and I have no restore points. Can anybody help
me
>> so that all my restore points don't disappear.
>>
>> Thank you,
>
>There are a few reasons for System Restore to reset:
>
>System Restore "Restore Points" Are Missing or Deleted
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;301224
>
>The System Restore Utility May Be Suspended on a System
Drive Even Though
>There Is Enough Disk Space
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;299904
>
>Troubleshooting System Restore in Windows XP
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;302796
>--
>Sharon F
>MS-MVP - Windows XP Shell/User
>.
>Sharon F,

I found an error message under event logs for system
restore that says, "The System Restore filter encountered
the unexpected error 0xC0000040 while processing the file
THE BEE GE...89.mpg.Ink on the volume HarddiskVolume1.
It has stopped monitoring the volume.

Do you know what this means or can you explain it to me
if it is related to erasing my system restore points?

Thanks,

David M

[Sharon F]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:22:53 -0700, David McGuire wrote:

>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 05:48:50 -0700, David McGuire wrote:
>>
>>> my system restore points totally disappear every week
> or
>>> so. I will check one day and there will be several
>>> restore points listed and then the next day they are
> all
>>> gone and I have no restore points. Can anybody help
> me
>>> so that all my restore points don't disappear.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>
>>There are a few reasons for System Restore to reset:
>>
>>System Restore "Restore Points" Are Missing or Deleted
>>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
> us;301224
>>
>>The System Restore Utility May Be Suspended on a System
> Drive Even Though
>>There Is Enough Disk Space
>>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
> us;299904
>>
>>Troubleshooting System Restore in Windows XP
>>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
> us;302796
>>--
>>Sharon F
>>MS-MVP - Windows XP Shell/User
>>.
>>Sharon F,
>
> I found an error message under event logs for system
> restore that says, "The System Restore filter encountered
> the unexpected error 0xC0000040 while processing the file
> THE BEE GE...89.mpg.Ink on the volume HarddiskVolume1.
> It has stopped monitoring the volume.
>
> Do you know what this means or can you explain it to me
> if it is related to erasing my system restore points?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David M

Yes it's related and at the moment the problem is attributed to "a rare set
of circumstances" caused by RealOne Player software. There is no fix
suggested in the article:

Windows System Restore Utility Quits and All Restore Points Are Deleted
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812119

You should be able to resume monitoring though: Right click My Computer and
select Properties. On the next screen that appears, you will be able to see
at a glance if System Restore is currently active (Monitoring will be noted
in this case) or if it still suspended (Turned Off). Select the drive you
want monitored. Click Settings. Remove the check from the box next "Turn
off System Restore on this drive."


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Sharon F
MS-MVP - Windows XP Shell/User

[Jeff Hayes]

"David McGuire" > wrote in message
...
> my system restore points totally disappear every week or
> so. I will check one day and there will be several
> restore points listed and then the next day they are all
> gone and I have no restore points. Can anybody help me
> so that all my restore points don't disappear.
>
> Thank you, ok you can try this if you want two ok make new restore point
every 2 two 3 days and then check two see if they are still there ok they
are other things that you could be doing two delete but i dont no for sure i
am not there do you every use disk cleanup if you will look there is a tab
that will take you two delete all but the most recent restore points ok this
will delete almost all of them if anyone else is useing your system it could
of been done accidently ok your friend Jeff

[Sjonia Harper [MSFT]]

You may need to adjust the amount of disk space allocated to System Restore.
Once the file space allocation has been reached, the FIFO mechanism within
the System Restore is triggered. Also as mentioned before, if you are using
Disk Cleanup you could inadvertently be deleting restore points. Lastly,
System Restore uses the FIFO process on restore points consistently across
drives and always purges full restore points. System Restore keeps restore
point information on all drives. So when one drive causes System Restore to
use the FIFO process on restore points because of low disk space, the
restore point information is purged on all drives. Do you have multiple
drives/partitions on your machine?

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"Jeff Hayes" > wrote in message
...
>
> "David McGuire" > wrote in message
> ...
> > my system restore points totally disappear every week or
> > so. I will check one day and there will be several
> > restore points listed and then the next day they are all
> > gone and I have no restore points. Can anybody help me
> > so that all my restore points don't disappear.
> >
> > Thank you, ok you can try this if you want two ok make new restore point
> every 2 two 3 days and then check two see if they are still there ok they
> are other things that you could be doing two delete but i dont no for sure
i
> am not there do you every use disk cleanup if you will look there is a tab
> that will take you two delete all but the most recent restore points ok
this
> will delete almost all of them if anyone else is useing your system it
could
> of been done accidently ok your friend Jeff
>
>