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WinXP and System Restore
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. |
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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. |
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WinXP and System Restore
"ft" wrote in message ... 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. |
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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).* *************************************** "ft" wrote in message ... 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. |
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WinXP and System Restore
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. "Rob" wrote in message ... 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. |
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