My System Restore does not work either.  Had a major crash in September due to an apparent system conflict with a very well known antivirus program update.  That is when my System Restore stopped working.  Cleaned everything off the hard drives and started over again with reloading Windows.  The installed the other well known Virus & Internet protection system that starts with the letter "N".  Still System Restore did not work.  Went through the MS procedure clearing out any possible infected restore points.  System Restore still does not function.

 

Dimension XPS Gen 2, Intel Pentium 4 - 3.40 GHz, 1024MB RAM, Windows XP Pro, Op System 5.1.2600.

 

Please HEEELP!!!!!!!!!!! 

 

What exactly is your problem with system restore?

The only thing I can tell you is that I discovered the fact that system restore during a during a lenthy sessiion with Dell on the phone; does not work.

Dell sent a tech to my home to install a new cd writer and to check out my system and according to the tech. everything is working find except for the fact that my HP memories disc program does not recognize the cd writerand that dell has no control over that. I also went through  a chat session with HP and they advised me to insert the HP all in one installation disc into the CD-ROM and search for hpq_0002.msi file and under "memories disc creator" folder and uninstall and reinstall that.

I simply couldn't do that.

When I attempt to use sytem restore I get a screen that says you system cannot be restored.

On a HP wed site I read where  a number of people experienced system restore not working  after installing SP-2 on Windows XP

Hi

You may find some answers about your system restore problems here

http://bertk.mvps.org . Check out the column on the left. Good luck

Odius and Chasbox,

 

I thank both of you very much for your input.  You may have given me the the tools to make this PIG sing, one way or another.

 

Kofschip

 

Never try to teach a pig to sing, you waste your time and it annoys the pig.........

No problem, glad you read it before the moderators deleted it. I guess you can't get away with using $$ for ss. :smileyvery-happy:

 

 

 

< Find and purchase Nortons GoBack 4.0 and tell Windows Restore to forget it. I never got it to work either. That is why I use NGB. It has saved my plenty of times.>

Usually once the system restore function becomes corrupt the only way to fix it is to turn it off>restart your machine and restart it.Go to control panel >system properties> check turn off system restore.

Sir,

You have been a godsend .

I followed your instructions to recover Windows System Restore and it worked.

Where did you acquire your expertise in such matters.

I can't thank you enough, you are a great person

 

Catalina II

Catalina II,

 

 

I don't know whether you got your system restore to working.  I did not, after trying everything and I found out that it is my NORTON INTERNET SUITE that stops it from doing. " ccSvcHst.exe -- Application Error" and ccSvcHst.exe is one of the Symantec shared folders.

 

 

Kofschip