Restore Points don't work

[John A.]

I needed to restore my PC to an previous point and used
System Restore. It went through the process, rebooted,
asked me to login as normal and as the desktop was
setting up a info window came up which said "Restore
Incomplete. Your system cannot be restored ........etc".
I was back to my current system.
I tried several other restore points all with the same
result. Then I created a restore point and restored from
it OK. Why are the auto restore points not working? I'm
running XP Pro on a P4 system only 6 months old,
everything has worked great untill I found this.

[Jupiter Jones [MVP]]

John;
There may be corrupted data in system Restore.
Turn off/on System Restore to delete corrupted files:
Start/All Programs/Accessories/System Tools/System Restore.
Click System Restore Settings on left side.
Check "Turn off System Restore", click OK, follow prompts and reboot.
This deletes all Restore Points including corruption.
Then go back and turn on system Restore and create a Restore Point.
Otherwise:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itcommunity/newsgroups/faqsrwxp.asp

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
An easier way to read newsgroup messages:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/newsgroups/setup.asp
http://dts-l.org/index.html


"John A." > wrote in message
...
> I needed to restore my PC to an previous point and used
> System Restore. It went through the process, rebooted,
> asked me to login as normal and as the desktop was
> setting up a info window came up which said "Restore
> Incomplete. Your system cannot be restored ........etc".
> I was back to my current system.
> I tried several other restore points all with the same
> result. Then I created a restore point and restored from
> it OK. Why are the auto restore points not working? I'm
> running XP Pro on a P4 system only 6 months old,
> everything has worked great untill I found this.