System Restore not working

thewolfe · Post by **thewolfe** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 2:05 pm

System Restore not working

My Windows Me System Restore is not working. I have looked at different posts and also tried disabling and enabling System Restore to no avail. I have also looked on Microsoft's Web site and didn't find anything there except to disable and enable.

Any suggestions?

JMEaT · Post by **JMEaT** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 3:38 pm

Does your system have any restore points?

thewolfe · Post by **thewolfe** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 3:44 pm

No, however when trying to fix the problem I turned off System Restore which I believe deletes all the restore points.

And am still unable to "create" one.

I did do the old DOS "scanreg restore" and found 3 restore points from July of 2003 but since the computer is running OK now (except for the System Restore utility) I didn't want to mess with it.

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 3:49 pm

Time to install Windows XP

J/K

Try running disk cleanup, sometimes it asks to delete all the old system restore points. Also make sure you have enough free space and system restore isnt already full.

-Krom

thewolfe · Post by **thewolfe** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 6:24 pm

How would I tell of system restore is already full?

Krom · Post by **Krom** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 7:59 pm

In system restore options you can tell it how much disk space to use, make sure its not like 20 MB. Then run disk cleanup and clear out all the old points.

-Krom

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Sat Jan 03, 2004 8:45 pm

From memory - each restore point is a minimum of 16MB or so. I have 6GB devoted to restore points.