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lawnmowerguy
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January 17th, 2004 18:00
System Restore not working properly
I have a Dell 2400 with XP Home SP1 installed with an 80GB hard drive. System Restore is turned on, set to use the maximum amount of hard drive space, 12%.
About a week ago, I formatted my computer's hard drive and reinstalled everything. Since then, System Restore only archives about 5 days of restore points before deleting them. With such a large amound of hard drive space to use, it should be months before ANY restore points are deleted. Instead, they are all deleted after a few days. Any ideas how to fix this? Hopefully I won't ever need to use System Restore, but I'd like for it to work properly.
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Posted January 17th, 2004 20:00
Lawnmowerguy,
You can check it now by creating six or more restore points and seeing if they are retained and if you can restore to them.
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Posted January 18th, 2004 08:00
if you reformatted 7 days ago, and 5 restore points have been created during that time, it sounds like things are working normally.. incidentally, i have seen my computer go for days without creating new restore points..278
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Posted January 18th, 2004 12:00
Yes, but System Restore should not delete ALL the restore points after only a week. It should take a few months before any are deleted, and then only the oldest ones.278
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Posted January 18th, 2004 12:00
so, are you saying that system restore is only retaining one restore point?
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Posted January 18th, 2004 14:00
Restore Points are automatically created every other day on my computer, or more when major programs are installed, such as Norton AV. After 6-7 days, all restore points are deleted. However, yesterday I turned off and then turned on System Restore, hoping that would somehow cause it to perform properly. Time will tell.
lawnmowerguy
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Posted January 17th, 2004 18:00