problem with system restore

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I wrote a couple days ago that my system restore will not restore and have
followed the suggestions made then. I turned off system restore, rebooted,
and then turned it on and created a new restore point.

I did what you said and created a new restore point and today my
machine will not restore to that point. I do not know what to do to make it
work. I have made sure task manager is enabled and to my knowledge have
everything done which has been suggested. I am unable to make system
restore go back to a previous point.

Any more suggestions??
 
Hi

After you have rebooted the first time and turned SR back on, you need to reboot again so that SR can create a 'clean' Point for your system.
 
Ok, yesterday I turned system restore off, rebooted, then created a new
restore point and then rebooted to create a clean point to restore to.
Today when I tried to restore to that point it goes through all the motions
but when it rebooted I get the message that my system could not be restored.
How can I refresh the program to make it work right? It worked before.
 
Ok, now I have allowed System Restore to create it's own new restore point
and my machine will still not restore to that point. When the reboot is
done I just have the system restore window saying that it cannot restore to
that point. Do you suggest a repair reinstall of Windows XP??
 
I have just this minute repaired this particular problem on my system. Running XP home ed. 80gig HDD P4 and for the rest I'm sorry but that info is in my hubby's head.

Any way my first question is do you have a 2nd HDD on your system. If so turn the monitoring off and only monitor the C HDD. You can do this on the Restore system page. While your here make sure you have enough disk space for the Restore, you can do this by clicking on settings. If your Hard drive is more than 4 gig it should read 12% and the slider all the way to the right.
Then procede to turn off the RS.
Reboot then enable the System Restore again. I lay down a new manual restore point so that I had something to compare my system to not realising the system does that itself. Then try to restore now see how that goes.

If you only have one drive (C:) (You need to be logged on as the Administrator to make some of these changes)

You need to firstly make sure the System Restore is enabled.

Click Start, click Run, and then type CMD press enter.
Then type Net Start.
This will tell you if you system services are all running ok.
Close down cmd. (Presuming everything is running OK - can't help if they are not because I really don't know too much about these things)

Make sure System restore is enabled on the C: you want System restore enabled while you do this.

Check event logs to investigate SR service errors:
Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Performance and Maintenance.
Click Administrative Tools, double click Computer Management, double click Event Viewer, and then click System.
Click the Source tab and then look for "sr or srservice". Highlight each file, right click, click on properties. This may help you with the source of your problem. In my case it didn't help but you never know.

Now you need to stop the service.
To open services, click Start, click Control Panel, click Performance and Maintenance, click Administrative Tools and then double click Services.
Highlight the System Restore service, right click the service and click Stop.

Now go to the System Restore tab and turn it off. By the sounds of it you have done this step a few times so I wont bog you down with those details.

But before you turn of the SR, As before with the 2 HDD's select the drive your system is on (Presumably C:) check for disc space you can check this by clicking on Settings. Again if HDD is more than 4 gig the setting should read 12% and the slider all the way over to the right. It is on this page you can permenantly turn of the extra drives if you have them. Click OK then turn of the SR for the one or all the drives.

Before going any further backup and run a registry cleanup tool of some sort. If you don't have one I can highly recommend RegScrubXP or even Norton Systemworks has a fairly good cleaner if you have that. (I,m only mentioning these as I use them myself and have found them very efficient.) This step may not be necessary, but just explaining all the steps I took.

Then do a reboot.

Reversing the proceedure above firstly turn back on or should I say restart the System Restore Services. Then turn your System Restore on monitoring only the one drive.

Lay down a new Restore Point, just so you may have something to compare it too. I waited for a wee while (checked my email etc.,) Then performed a restore. Imagine my surprise after 3 months of no restore facility IT WORKED.

Quite honestly I do not know what part of this process worked because in my case I DO have 2 HDD's 1x80gig & 1x60(data backup drive - my life saver) All I know is that my System Restore is funtioning 100%. I even reversed the restore just to be sure. So it could have been as easy a just turning of the monitoring of the D: who knows. I don't suppose I'll ever find out. Unless the SR fails me again. But then I'll know how to fix it.......LOL

I hope you can understand my instructional advice with some ease and I haven't left anything out. I have double checked and I don't think so.

My apologies for such a long winded explanation and any spelling mistakes. I sincerely hope I have been able to help you. All I know is it all worked for me.

Cheers and all the Best Both for Xmas, New Year and your computing.

Regards

Sally
 
Thank you for all your info. I have done much of what you suggest and even
did a repair reinstall of Windows XP yesterday. Now today cannot restore to
yesterday's restore point. Maybe I will have to do a completely new install
again. Got all my 'stuff',ie, install programs, on my jump drive so could
just start from scratch.

I will go through what you have written, print it out and work on it.. I
only have the one hard drive and am administrator. Have all the programs
you mentioned installed. Have RegEdit, Norton Systemworks, and many other
neat utilities. Norton I notice has a GoBack feature. I really don't need
to restore often but want to if I run into trouble with any new software. I
love to try all the new stuff and sometimes end up wanted to get rid of it
and need restore to do that.
 
I totally understand where you are coming from. I pretty much do the same thing. But mostly though my problems have been related to setting up the dsl and networking the three home computers and it would have saved many hours of resetting configurations.

I have had this restore problem for over three months and until last night couldn't find a fix for it. So yes I am totally stoked that I did kick a goal so to speak.

I, like you had tried everything, including two complete reformats and re-installs along with countless system repairs. Not to be the bearer of bad news but this still didn't fix up the problem. So I guess I'm suggesting try everything else before doing that. For me it was a waste of time.

I even tried to use the go back facility in Norton, but to be totally honest - not knowing enough, it frightened me as I didn't really know what I was doing, so I quit out of that proceedure. Though it may work if you know what your doing I just didn't take that chance. Need more research before I can tackle that.

But even so it puts the system in the hands of Norton and still doesn't fix the SR facility. Which I say to that is, if its part of the system, it MUST work by default.

Somebody I think posted earlier in either this thread or one similar to it, that TOO many people are having to endure this problem and basically why hasn't Microsoft attended to this issue. Either it be how to correct problem in the Knowledge Base Library or create a patch to prevent the same. A statement I can totally agree with. Like I said before I have been trying to get a result for this problem for a little over 3 months now.

Please try what I suggested in my last post. Like I said this proceedure worked for me and if all else fails, yes there is always the reformat function.

Hope all works out for you. Please let me know how you go.

Kindest Regards

Sally
 
I Suggest taking alook at a reply to a posting from "Chris Lanier" on the same problem. I haven't tied it myself yet but it looks to me like the best bet.
 
I am having the same problem. I discovered that I had the Novarg virus, and in order to clean it I had to disable System Restore. When I went to reenable it, I thought I'd try setting a restore point and then restoring to it. Everything appears to function until the reboot after the restore, when I get a message saying "A restoration to "restore point X" restore point failed. No changes have been made to the system." I have tried all these variations of turning off, turning it on, booting left and right, and it doesn't want to work. Is my computer the source of the problem, or is this just a lousy piece of software?
 
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