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Can not restore computer to a previous state.
I have tried to restore my computer to a previous
state from both the normal mode and the safe mode. It chugs along for at least 15 minutes and says it is restoring files and when XP boots up again into the normal mode it says that the restoration was incomplete and it says nothing was done to my computer. I have tried restoring my computer from at least 30 different restore points in the last 24 hours and nothing works. This is my system information. OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600 OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name 732REDHILLFR System Manufacturer HP Pavilion 061 System Model EX272AA-ABA a1520n System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 15 Model 43 Stepping 1 AuthenticAMD ~2004 Mhz BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 3.11, 9/19/2006 SMBIOS Version 2.4 Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 Locale United States Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)" User Name 732REDHILLFR\HP_Administrator Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time Total Physical Memory 3,072.00 MB Available Physical Memory 2.23 GB Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB Page File Space 5.84 GB Page File C:\pagefile.sys Harold A Climer Dept. Of Physics Geology, and Astronomy U.T, Chattanooga Rm. 406A Engineering, Math & Computer Science Building 615 McCallie Ave. Chattanooga TN 37403 |
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Can not restore computer to a previous state.
"Harold A. Climer" wrote in message ... I have tried to restore my computer to a previous state from both the normal mode and the safe mode. It chugs along for at least 15 minutes and says it is restoring files and when XP boots up again into the normal mode it says that the restoration was incomplete and it says nothing was done to my computer. I have tried restoring my computer from at least 30 different restore points in the last 24 hours and nothing works. This is my system information. OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600 OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name 732REDHILLFR System Manufacturer HP Pavilion 061 System Model EX272AA-ABA a1520n System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 15 Model 43 Stepping 1 AuthenticAMD ~2004 Mhz BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 3.11, 9/19/2006 SMBIOS Version 2.4 Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 Locale United States Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)" User Name 732REDHILLFR\HP_Administrator Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time Total Physical Memory 3,072.00 MB Available Physical Memory 2.23 GB Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB Page File Space 5.84 GB Page File C:\pagefile.sys Harold A Climer Dept. Of Physics Geology, and Astronomy U.T, Chattanooga Rm. 406A Engineering, Math & Computer Science Building 615 McCallie Ave. Chattanooga TN 37403 Antivirus programs and 3rd party firewalls will sometimes interfere with a successful System Restore. You can always try it in safe mode with command prompt: How to start the System Restore tool by using the safe mode option with the Command prompt in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304449 This has worked for me when the normal routes have failed. -- SC Tom |
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Can not restore computer to a previous state.
"Harold A. Climer" wrote in message ... I have tried to restore my computer to a previous state from both the normal mode and the safe mode. It chugs along for at least 15 minutes and says it is restoring files and when XP boots up again into the normal mode it says that the restoration was incomplete and it says nothing was done to my computer. I have tried restoring my computer from at least 30 different restore points in the last 24 hours and nothing works. This is my system information. OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600 OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name 732REDHILLFR System Manufacturer HP Pavilion 061 System Model EX272AA-ABA a1520n System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 15 Model 43 Stepping 1 AuthenticAMD ~2004 Mhz BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 3.11, 9/19/2006 SMBIOS Version 2.4 Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 Locale United States Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)" User Name 732REDHILLFR\HP_Administrator Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time Total Physical Memory 3,072.00 MB Available Physical Memory 2.23 GB Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB Page File Space 5.84 GB Page File C:\pagefile.sys Harold A Climer Dept. Of Physics Geology, and Astronomy U.T, Chattanooga Rm. 406A Engineering, Math & Computer Science Building 615 McCallie Ave. Chattanooga TN 37403 Antivirus programs and 3rd party firewalls will sometimes interfere with a successful System Restore. You can always try it in safe mode with command prompt: How to start the System Restore tool by using the safe mode option with the Command prompt in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304449 This has worked for me when the normal routes have failed. -- SC Tom |
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Can not restore computer to a previous state.
"Harold A. Climer" wrote: I have tried to restore my computer to a previous state from both the normal mode and the safe mode. It chugs along for at least 15 minutes and says it is restoring files and when XP boots up again into the normal mode it says that the restoration was incomplete and it says nothing was done to my computer. I have tried restoring my computer from at least 30 different restore points in the last 24 hours and nothing works. This is my system information. OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600 OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name 732REDHILLFR System Manufacturer HP Pavilion 061 System Model EX272AA-ABA a1520n System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 15 Model 43 Stepping 1 AuthenticAMD ~2004 Mhz BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 3.11, 9/19/2006 SMBIOS Version 2.4 Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 Locale United States Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)" User Name 732REDHILLFR\HP_Administrator Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time Total Physical Memory 3,072.00 MB Available Physical Memory 2.23 GB Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB Page File Space 5.84 GB Page File C:\pagefile.sys Harold A Climer Dept. Of Physics Geology, and Astronomy U.T, Chattanooga Rm. 406A Engineering, Math & Computer Science Building 615 McCallie Ave. Chattanooga TN 37403 . Sometimes antivirus or security suites interfere with or disable System Restore. You didn't say what was wrong that made you feel you needed to do a System Restore. Care to share? |
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Can not restore computer to a previous state.
"Harold A. Climer" wrote: I have tried to restore my computer to a previous state from both the normal mode and the safe mode. It chugs along for at least 15 minutes and says it is restoring files and when XP boots up again into the normal mode it says that the restoration was incomplete and it says nothing was done to my computer. I have tried restoring my computer from at least 30 different restore points in the last 24 hours and nothing works. This is my system information. OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600 OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name 732REDHILLFR System Manufacturer HP Pavilion 061 System Model EX272AA-ABA a1520n System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 15 Model 43 Stepping 1 AuthenticAMD ~2004 Mhz BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 3.11, 9/19/2006 SMBIOS Version 2.4 Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 Locale United States Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)" User Name 732REDHILLFR\HP_Administrator Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time Total Physical Memory 3,072.00 MB Available Physical Memory 2.23 GB Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB Page File Space 5.84 GB Page File C:\pagefile.sys Harold A Climer Dept. Of Physics Geology, and Astronomy U.T, Chattanooga Rm. 406A Engineering, Math & Computer Science Building 615 McCallie Ave. Chattanooga TN 37403 . Sometimes antivirus or security suites interfere with or disable System Restore. You didn't say what was wrong that made you feel you needed to do a System Restore. Care to share? |
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Can not restore computer to a previous state.
What anti-virus application or security suite is installed and is your
subscription current? What anti-spyware applications (other than Defender)? What third-party firewall (if any)? Has a(another) Norton or McAfee application ever been installed on the computer (e.g., a free-trial version that came preinstalled when you bought it)? Also see http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srfail.html Harold A. Climer wrote: ...I have tried to restore my computer to a previous state from both the normal mode and the safe mode. It chugs along for at least 15 minutes and says it is restoring files and when XP boots up again into the normal mode it says that the restoration was incomplete and it says nothing was done to my computer. I have tried restoring my computer from at least 30 different restore points in the last 24 hours and nothing works. This is my system information. OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600... |
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Can not restore computer to a previous state.
What anti-virus application or security suite is installed and is your
subscription current? What anti-spyware applications (other than Defender)? What third-party firewall (if any)? Has a(another) Norton or McAfee application ever been installed on the computer (e.g., a free-trial version that came preinstalled when you bought it)? Also see http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srfail.html Harold A. Climer wrote: ...I have tried to restore my computer to a previous state from both the normal mode and the safe mode. It chugs along for at least 15 minutes and says it is restoring files and when XP boots up again into the normal mode it says that the restoration was incomplete and it says nothing was done to my computer. I have tried restoring my computer from at least 30 different restore points in the last 24 hours and nothing works. This is my system information. OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600... |
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Can not restore computer to a previous state.
On 6/8/2010 11:41 AM, PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
What anti-virus application or security suite is installed and is your subscription current? What anti-spyware applications (other than Defender)? What third-party firewall (if any)? Has a(another) Norton or McAfee application ever been installed on the computer (e.g., a free-trial version that came preinstalled when you bought it)? Also see http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srfail.html Harold A. Climer wrote: ...I have tried to restore my computer to a previous state from both the normal mode and the safe mode. It chugs along for at least 15 minutes and says it is restoring files and when XP boots up again into the normal mode it says that the restoration was incomplete and it says nothing was done to my computer. I have tried restoring my computer from at least 30 different restore points in the last 24 hours and nothing works. This is my system information. OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600... +1 -- Lem Apollo 11 - 40 years ago: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ap...0th/index.html |
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Can not restore computer to a previous state.
On 6/8/2010 11:41 AM, PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote: What anti-virus application or security suite is installed and is your subscription current? What anti-spyware applications (other than Defender)? What third-party firewall (if any)? Has a(another) Norton or McAfee application ever been installed on the computer (e.g., a free-trial version that came preinstalled when you bought it)? Also see http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srfail.html Harold A. Climer wrote: ...I have tried to restore my computer to a previous state from both the normal mode and the safe mode. It chugs along for at least 15 minutes and says it is restoring files and when XP boots up again into the normal mode it says that the restoration was incomplete and it says nothing was done to my computer. I have tried restoring my computer from at least 30 different restore points in the last 24 hours and nothing works. This is my system information. OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600... +1 -- Lem Apollo 11 - 40 years ago: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ap...0th/index.html |
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Can not restore computer to a previous state.
On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 07:29:44 -0700, Mark Adams
wrote: "Harold A. Climer" wrote: I have tried to restore my computer to a previous state from both the normal mode and the safe mode. It chugs along for at least 15 minutes and says it is restoring files and when XP boots up again into the normal mode it says that the restoration was incomplete and it says nothing was done to my computer. I have tried restoring my computer from at least 30 different restore points in the last 24 hours and nothing works. This is my system information. OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600 OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name 732REDHILLFR System Manufacturer HP Pavilion 061 System Model EX272AA-ABA a1520n System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 15 Model 43 Stepping 1 AuthenticAMD ~2004 Mhz BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 3.11, 9/19/2006 SMBIOS Version 2.4 Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 Locale United States Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)" User Name 732REDHILLFR\HP_Administrator Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time Total Physical Memory 3,072.00 MB Available Physical Memory 2.23 GB Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB Page File Space 5.84 GB Page File C:\pagefile.sys Harold A Climer Dept. Of Physics Geology, and Astronomy U.T, Chattanooga Rm. 406A Engineering, Math & Computer Science Building 615 McCallie Ave. Chattanooga TN 37403 . Sometimes antivirus or security suites interfere with or disable System Restore. You didn't say what was wrong that made you feel you needed to do a System Restore. Care to share? I was using MAPLE 11 to solve a Classical Mechanics problem when a voltage spike caused the computer to go a bit wonky. I think lightening caused a spike in the phone line since the bell rang and possibly the power line too. Then Maple was not responding correctly( Did not respond to mouse clicks for menus and to close drop down windows) so I thought I would try to a system restore. This has worked before when a particular program was mis behaving. |
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Can not restore computer to a previous state.
On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 07:29:44 -0700, Mark Adams
wrote: "Harold A. Climer" wrote: I have tried to restore my computer to a previous state from both the normal mode and the safe mode. It chugs along for at least 15 minutes and says it is restoring files and when XP boots up again into the normal mode it says that the restoration was incomplete and it says nothing was done to my computer. I have tried restoring my computer from at least 30 different restore points in the last 24 hours and nothing works. This is my system information. OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600 OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name 732REDHILLFR System Manufacturer HP Pavilion 061 System Model EX272AA-ABA a1520n System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 15 Model 43 Stepping 1 AuthenticAMD ~2004 Mhz BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 3.11, 9/19/2006 SMBIOS Version 2.4 Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 Locale United States Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)" User Name 732REDHILLFR\HP_Administrator Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time Total Physical Memory 3,072.00 MB Available Physical Memory 2.23 GB Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB Page File Space 5.84 GB Page File C:\pagefile.sys Harold A Climer Dept. Of Physics Geology, and Astronomy U.T, Chattanooga Rm. 406A Engineering, Math & Computer Science Building 615 McCallie Ave. Chattanooga TN 37403 . Sometimes antivirus or security suites interfere with or disable System Restore. You didn't say what was wrong that made you feel you needed to do a System Restore. Care to share? I was using MAPLE 11 to solve a Classical Mechanics problem when a voltage spike caused the computer to go a bit wonky. I think lightening caused a spike in the phone line since the bell rang and possibly the power line too. Then Maple was not responding correctly( Did not respond to mouse clicks for menus and to close drop down windows) so I thought I would try to a system restore. This has worked before when a particular program was mis behaving. |
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Can not restore computer to a previous state.
Hi. Try go to the safe mode menu and use the "Boot to last known-good configuration" options. This option won't allow you to pick what date to restore too however it will go back as far as it has to. What anti-virus protection are you using? I know that Norton Antivirus from Symantec has caused some issues with system restore in the past and turning protection OFF during the restore has been one solution. You could also check in event viewer and see if there is any hint of why the system restore is incomplete. Go to Start - Run and type eventvwr.msc and press enter. Click on Windows Log in the left pane then click on System. Click the gray title “Source” at the top of the source name column in the right pane to sort by source name, look for "sr" and "srservice". / Ani |
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Can not restore computer to a previous state.
Hi. Try go to the safe mode menu and use the "Boot to last known-good configuration" options. This option won't allow you to pick what date to restore too however it will go back as far as it has to. What anti-virus protection are you using? I know that Norton Antivirus from Symantec has caused some issues with system restore in the past and turning protection OFF during the restore has been one solution. You could also check in event viewer and see if there is any hint of why the system restore is incomplete. Go to Start - Run and type eventvwr.msc and press enter. Click on Windows Log in the left pane then click on System. Click the gray title “Source” at the top of the source name column in the right pane to sort by source name, look for "sr" and "srservice". / Ani |
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"Harold A. Climer" wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 07:29:44 -0700, Mark Adams wrote: "Harold A. Climer" wrote: I have tried to restore my computer to a previous state from both the normal mode and the safe mode. It chugs along for at least 15 minutes and says it is restoring files and when XP boots up again into the normal mode it says that the restoration was incomplete and it says nothing was done to my computer. I have tried restoring my computer from at least 30 different restore points in the last 24 hours and nothing works. This is my system information. OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600 OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name 732REDHILLFR System Manufacturer HP Pavilion 061 System Model EX272AA-ABA a1520n System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 15 Model 43 Stepping 1 AuthenticAMD ~2004 Mhz BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 3.11, 9/19/2006 SMBIOS Version 2.4 Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 Locale United States Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)" User Name 732REDHILLFR\HP_Administrator Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time Total Physical Memory 3,072.00 MB Available Physical Memory 2.23 GB Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB Page File Space 5.84 GB Page File C:\pagefile.sys Harold A Climer Dept. Of Physics Geology, and Astronomy U.T, Chattanooga Rm. 406A Engineering, Math & Computer Science Building 615 McCallie Ave. Chattanooga TN 37403 . Sometimes antivirus or security suites interfere with or disable System Restore. You didn't say what was wrong that made you feel you needed to do a System Restore. Care to share? I was using MAPLE 11 to solve a Classical Mechanics problem when a voltage spike caused the computer to go a bit wonky. I think lightening caused a spike in the phone line since the bell rang and possibly the power line too. Then Maple was not responding correctly( Did not respond to mouse clicks for menus and to close drop down windows) so I thought I would try to a system restore. This has worked before when a particular program was mis behaving. . Ooo, not good. You should be using a surge protector/uninterruptible power supply anywhere lightning is likely. Does the machine run OK otherwise? (nothing fried?) If the machine is yours, I would try uninstalling and reinstalling the program. If the machine belongs to the University, I would have the IT department reimage it. |
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"Harold A. Climer" wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 07:29:44 -0700, Mark Adams wrote: "Harold A. Climer" wrote: I have tried to restore my computer to a previous state from both the normal mode and the safe mode. It chugs along for at least 15 minutes and says it is restoring files and when XP boots up again into the normal mode it says that the restoration was incomplete and it says nothing was done to my computer. I have tried restoring my computer from at least 30 different restore points in the last 24 hours and nothing works. This is my system information. OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600 OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name 732REDHILLFR System Manufacturer HP Pavilion 061 System Model EX272AA-ABA a1520n System Type X86-based PC Processor x86 Family 15 Model 43 Stepping 1 AuthenticAMD ~2004 Mhz BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 3.11, 9/19/2006 SMBIOS Version 2.4 Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 Locale United States Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.5512 (xpsp.080413-2111)" User Name 732REDHILLFR\HP_Administrator Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time Total Physical Memory 3,072.00 MB Available Physical Memory 2.23 GB Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB Page File Space 5.84 GB Page File C:\pagefile.sys Harold A Climer Dept. Of Physics Geology, and Astronomy U.T, Chattanooga Rm. 406A Engineering, Math & Computer Science Building 615 McCallie Ave. Chattanooga TN 37403 . Sometimes antivirus or security suites interfere with or disable System Restore. You didn't say what was wrong that made you feel you needed to do a System Restore. Care to share? I was using MAPLE 11 to solve a Classical Mechanics problem when a voltage spike caused the computer to go a bit wonky. I think lightening caused a spike in the phone line since the bell rang and possibly the power line too. Then Maple was not responding correctly( Did not respond to mouse clicks for menus and to close drop down windows) so I thought I would try to a system restore. This has worked before when a particular program was mis behaving. . Ooo, not good. You should be using a surge protector/uninterruptible power supply anywhere lightning is likely. Does the machine run OK otherwise? (nothing fried?) If the machine is yours, I would try uninstalling and reinstalling the program. If the machine belongs to the University, I would have the IT department reimage it. |
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