System Restore not working?

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Steve Latham

Hi,

I tried to System Restore, but all of the dates I tried for last week
(Friday back through Monday) come back with "Restore Unsuccessful" (or words
to that effect).

What's going on? Do I have to just keep on trying until I find one that
works?

TIA
 
it seems to me that
maybe you have a
couple of problems.

one being that required
a system restored to a
functional date and two,
the system restore feature
itself is faulty.

what you might want
to do is a simple "repair
installation" with your
windows setup cd.

the repair installation
will repair and replace
missing and corrupted
system files with genuine
ones from the cd.

in addition, the process
will make a brand new
restore point and delete
all the prior ones.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/tips/doug92.mspx
 
Steve Latham said:
Hi,

I tried to System Restore, but all of the dates I tried for last week (Friday
back through Monday) come back with "Restore Unsuccessful" (or words to that
effect).

What's going on? Do I have to just keep on trying until I find one that works?

TIA
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Just out of curiosity, what antivirus program do you have running on your
computer? Some AV programs can interfere with System Restore.

To see if this may be the case try running System Restore in Safe mode.

Good luck

Nepatsfan
 
Just out of curiosity, what antivirus program do you have running on your
computer? Some AV programs can interfere with System Restore.

To see if this may be the case try running System Restore in Safe mode.

Good luck

Nepatsfan
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Norton AV.

How do I start up in Safe Mode?
 
Steve Latham said:
Norton AV.

How do I start up in Safe Mode?
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Tap F8 on start up/Boot up until you get a Boot up options select safe Mode.
There try to restore your operating system by doing this:
Click Start >> All programs >> Accessories >> System Tools >> System Restore.
 
Steve Latham said:
Norton AV.

How do I start up in Safe Mode?
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To boot into Safe Mode, restart your computer. Keep hitting the F8 key until you
see the Windows Advanced Options Menu. Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to
select Safe Mode from the list.

You can also use this free program to configure your computer to boot into Safe
Mode.

Boot Safe
http://www.superadblocker.com/bootsafe.html

As for Norton AV and System Restore, take a look at this web site.

Courtesy of Bert Kinney, MS-MVP
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/symantecdoc1.html

Good luck

Nepatsfan
 
To boot into Safe Mode, restart your computer. Keep hitting the F8 key
until you see the Windows Advanced Options Menu. Use the arrow keys on
your keyboard to select Safe Mode from the list.

You can also use this free program to configure your computer to boot into
Safe Mode.

Boot Safe
http://www.superadblocker.com/bootsafe.html

As for Norton AV and System Restore, take a look at this web site.

Courtesy of Bert Kinney, MS-MVP
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/symantecdoc1.html
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No luck. I started in safe mode, didn't restore. I turned everything in
Norton Utilities off - same message. I turned off NU and started in safe
mode - still didn't work.

I guess I better dump some money on an extra backup drive because it looks
like system restore will never work again.

Thanks.
 
Steve Latham said:
No luck. I started in safe mode, didn't restore. I turned everything in Norton
Utilities off - same message. I turned off NU and started in safe mode - still
didn't work.

I guess I better dump some money on an extra backup drive because it looks
like system restore will never work again.

Thanks.
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Steve,

See if you can restore from a Safe Mode command prompt:
How to start the System Restore tool at a command prompt in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304449/

--


Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Windows Desktop User Experience }
Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://dts-l.com/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
 
Steve Latham said:
No luck. I started in safe mode, didn't restore. I turned everything in Norton
Utilities off - same message. I turned off NU and started in safe mode - still
didn't work.

I guess I better dump some money on an extra backup drive because it looks
like system restore will never work again.

Thanks.
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If you can't get System Restore working properly, you may have to delete all of
your restore points. Take a look at this article for more info.

How to turn off and turn on System Restore in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310405

If this doesn't solve the problem, you can try reinstalling System Restore.

Courtesy of Bert Kinney, MS-MVP
How to Reinstall System Restore in Windows XP
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/reinstall.html

Finally, System Restore should never be relied on in place of a sound backup
strategy. Whether it works or not isn't why you should "dump some money on an
extra backup drive". Also, any drive storing backup files should be an external
drive.

Good luck

Nepatsfan
 
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