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Ladyen

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April 3rd, 2005 23:00

Windows XP System Restore

Has anyone had a problems with Windows XP system restore?  Mine just will not restore, period.:smileyindifferent:

shesagordie

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April 3rd, 2005 23:00

Ladyen.

System Restore can become corrupt and the only way to repair it, is to start over again.  You can try disabling System Restore, Go to Start > Control Panel > System > System Restore tab and check "Turn Off System Restore on All Drives"    Reboot the computer and then enable system restore again and try to create a manual restore point and restore to it.  
 
Bev.

parkerti

610 Posts

April 3rd, 2005 23:00

I'm pretty sure that service pack 2 did something to mine. It quit about that time. I have not been able to get it working - including deleting all previous saves, etc. I'm not going to reformat and reload the OS just for that feature though. Anyone else have any ideas?

Message Edited by parkerti on 04-04-2005 08:08 AM

Ladyen

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April 4th, 2005 01:00

Thanks for the reply.  I agree, re-formating is not an option for me due to all of my business information is on this system.  I have also tried disabling, rebooting and resetting, nothing works.  I should of kept with ME or never upgraded to SP2.

shesagordie

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April 4th, 2005 03:00

Ladyen.

Try the option "last known good configuration".    If this does not correct the problem, then check out The "Repair Install" option.

http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm

http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm

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Message Edited by shesagordie on 04-03-2005 11:22 PM

maxd

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April 4th, 2005 18:00

I think Last Good is unlikely to work if SR doesn't. Don't quote me. If the system is clean and you've already tried the disable/reboot/re-enable SR method I would maximize the size of SR space on your hard disk. If that doesn't do it by itself search for the file sr.inf, right-click it (sr) and select "Install". Easier fix may come through this command:

sfc /scannow

If it asks for a cd you will need a slipstreamed copy of XP combined with SP2 to complete the running of the System File Checker or you will have to make some registry edits to make SFC run from your C: drive.

Best explanation I've seen about SFC and specifically how to get it to run from the hard drive, specifically the dllcache folder.

http://www.updatexp.com/scannow-sfc.html

Message Edited by maxd on 04-04-2005 09:08 PM

Pygmalion

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August 27th, 2006 11:00

I've just solved this using Microsoft Knowledge Base Article ID 299904 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/29904/ . The problem is caused by the partition Local Disk created by Dell for reinstallation files only having 31.7MB free space, when a minimum of 50MB is required to prevent System Restore to be suspended across the system. All you do is turn off system restore on this drive (and any other which has less than 50MB free space after a 'Disk Cleanup') via System Restore Settings.

After doing this I created a new restore point and restarted my computer. After restart this restore point was still there.

Hope this helps

Graham

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