re: System Restore fails
Saturday, April 8, 2006 at 5:08 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by phantom
(5661 messages posted)
XPs system restore is fraught with problems. It never will work right. You would
be better off downloading Erunt from the web and using it for registry backup. I
don't have a link to the program but you can Google for it..It is free!!!
On Saturday, April 8, 2006 at 4:41 am, Richard Hirschman wrote:
>I am using Windows XP. System Restore worked fine on my computer until recently.
>I could create Restore Points and Restore my system with it. I can still create
Restore
>Points with it. However, the problem now occurs when I try to actually restore my
>system to a previous restore point. Now when I actually try to restore my system
>to a previous restore point with System Restore, I get a message screen (appears
>while the restore is booting), that has at the top of the screen, "Windows cannot
>restore to that restore point," and that I should, "try a different restore point."
>I tried restoring my system to three previous restore points but received the same
>message.
>Not too long ago, I changed some of the drive letters for some of the drives. All
>of the attempted restores were to restore points created after I changed the drive
>letters, and had I rebooted since then many times. I don't know if the change of
>drive letters has anything to do with the problem of system restore now not working
>properly.
>I tried looking in the Microsoft Knowledge Base but could not find a relevant article
>for this problem.
>1) Why can't I successfully use the system restore feature to restore my system
to
>an earlier restore point?
>2) How can I get it to work again?
>Thanks.
>Richard
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