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re: System restore wont let me go back Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 4:36 am Posted by MartinM (7551 messages posted) What exactly do you mean by "will not let me go back" ? Are you saying there are no Restore Points more than a week old (probably, but not certainly, a result of the PC having only a small space allocated to Restore Points) ? Or are you saying that there are older Restore Points but you cannot invoke them (unlikely but possible) ? Anyway can you give some more detail please ? Alternatively, if you can say what the underlying problem is we may be able to help you sort it in other ways than through System Restore ? On Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 4:02 am, Ian wrote: >My system restore will not let me go back more than a week. Why would this be and >how can I override it ? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: System restore wont let me go back Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 6:07 am Posted by Ricer46 (23825 messages posted) SR is terribly unreliable and should not be counted on when needed. Besides that the basic concept is rather flawed. Use erunt or disk imaging instead. On Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 4:02 am, Ian wrote: >My system restore will not let me go back more than a week. Why would this be and >how can I override it ? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: System restore wont let me go back Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 2:10 pm Posted by Ian (154 messages posted) I want to restore because I had an MP3 website software uninstalled but all my music files went with it. It doesn't give the option of going back more than a week. The other day it let me go back 3 months. On Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 6:07 am, Ricer46 wrote: >SR is terribly unreliable and should not be counted on when needed. Besides that >the basic concept is rather flawed. Use erunt or disk imaging instead. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: System restore wont let me go back Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 2:19 pm Posted by MartinM (7551 messages posted) SR will NOT restore lost user files :-(( Where were the music files, and are you SURE they've gone ? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: System restore wont let me go back Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 4:36 am Posted by Gary (88 messages posted) Do what Ricer said and use ERUNT. That is what I use. It works well, and only seconds to flash back to a restore point! On Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 4:02 am, Ian wrote: >My system restore will not let me go back more than a week. Why would this be and >how can I override it ? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: System restore wont let me go back Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 7:55 am Posted by Ricer46 (23825 messages posted) That's one of the limitations of SR, it would have done nothing to protect those files (neither would have erunt). If data is important to you, you should back it up. On Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 2:10 pm, Ian wrote: >I want to restore because I had an MP3 website software uninstalled but all my music >files went with it. > >It doesn't give the option of going back more than a week. The other day it let me >go back 3 months. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum