Windows System Restore Points

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Joco

Hi,
My PC is not retaining the system restore points, either those created
automativally or manually. It seems restore points are only retained until I
reboot, and then there gone.
The PC drive has 3 partitions, with the following system restore settings
C:\ 8% (9237 MB) Free space 88832MB, main working partition
D:\ 12% (623 MB) Free 1100MB, restore partition
G:\ 100% (7 MB) Free 4MB backup partition, reduced to minimum size
Fragmentation is minimal 5.24% on C:\ zero on D:\ & G:\
I have 2 Remote drives and system restore is disabled for both of these.
My OS is XP Home SP2.
Any help in resolving this would be appreciated

Joco (London)


Joco (London)
 
Hi Joco,

Stop monitoring the G: partition and the missing restore point problem
should go away.

System Restore requires a minimum of 200 MB of free disk space on the system
drive at installation. When the amount of free disk space falls below 50 MB
on ANY monitored drive, System Restore switches to standby mode and stops
creating restore points. All restore points are deleted at that time. System
Restore reactivates and resumes creating restore points as soon as 200 MB of
disk space is free on the system drive.

Monitoring the restore partition (D:) will be of little or no benefit
either. I would suggest monitoring ONLY the partition Windows is installed on.

Here is a description of System Restore:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/description.html

Troubleshooting missing restore points:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/missingrps.html

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org


Joco wrote:
> Hi,
> My PC is not retaining the system restore points, either those created
> automativally or manually. It seems restore points are only retained until I
> reboot, and then there gone.
> The PC drive has 3 partitions, with the following system restore settings
> C:\ 8% (9237 MB) Free space 88832MB, main working partition
> D:\ 12% (623 MB) Free 1100MB, restore partition
> G:\ 100% (7 MB) Free 4MB backup partition, reduced to minimum size
> Fragmentation is minimal 5.24% on C:\ zero on D:\ & G:\
> I have 2 Remote drives and system restore is disabled for both of these.
> My OS is XP Home SP2.
> Any help in resolving this would be appreciated
>
> Joco (London)
>
>
> Joco (London)
 
Bert Hi,

Thanks for your responce which worked.
Yesterday I stopped monitoring all partitions except the one with windows
on, and this morning I have the restore points created yesterday.

Thanks
Joco

"Bert Kinney" wrote:

> Hi Joco,
>
> Stop monitoring the G: partition and the missing restore point problem
> should go away.
>
> System Restore requires a minimum of 200 MB of free disk space on the system
> drive at installation. When the amount of free disk space falls below 50 MB
> on ANY monitored drive, System Restore switches to standby mode and stops
> creating restore points. All restore points are deleted at that time. System
> Restore reactivates and resumes creating restore points as soon as 200 MB of
> disk space is free on the system drive.
>
> Monitoring the restore partition (D:) will be of little or no benefit
> either. I would suggest monitoring ONLY the partition Windows is installed on.
>
> Here is a description of System Restore:
> http://bertk.mvps.org/html/description.html
>
> Troubleshooting missing restore points:
> http://bertk.mvps.org/html/missingrps.html
>
> Regards,
> Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
> http://bertk.mvps.org
> Member: http://dts-l.org
>
>
> Joco wrote:
> > Hi,
> > My PC is not retaining the system restore points, either those created
> > automativally or manually. It seems restore points are only retained until I
> > reboot, and then there gone.
> > The PC drive has 3 partitions, with the following system restore settings
> > C:\ 8% (9237 MB) Free space 88832MB, main working partition
> > D:\ 12% (623 MB) Free 1100MB, restore partition
> > G:\ 100% (7 MB) Free 4MB backup partition, reduced to minimum size
> > Fragmentation is minimal 5.24% on C:\ zero on D:\ & G:\
> > I have 2 Remote drives and system restore is disabled for both of these.
> > My OS is XP Home SP2.
> > Any help in resolving this would be appreciated
> >
> > Joco (London)
> >
> >
> > Joco (London)
>
 
You're welcome Joco. Thanks for the feedback.

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org


Joco wrote:
> Bert Hi,
>
> Thanks for your responce which worked.
> Yesterday I stopped monitoring all partitions except the one with windows
> on, and this morning I have the restore points created yesterday.
>
> Thanks
> Joco
>
> "Bert Kinney" wrote:
>
>> Hi Joco,
>>
>> Stop monitoring the G: partition and the missing restore point problem
>> should go away.
>>
>> System Restore requires a minimum of 200 MB of free disk space on the system
>> drive at installation. When the amount of free disk space falls below 50 MB
>> on ANY monitored drive, System Restore switches to standby mode and stops
>> creating restore points. All restore points are deleted at that time. System
>> Restore reactivates and resumes creating restore points as soon as 200 MB of
>> disk space is free on the system drive.
>>
>> Monitoring the restore partition (D:) will be of little or no benefit
>> either. I would suggest monitoring ONLY the partition Windows is installed on.
>>
>> Here is a description of System Restore:
>> http://bertk.mvps.org/html/description.html
>>
>> Troubleshooting missing restore points:
>> http://bertk.mvps.org/html/missingrps.html
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
>> http://bertk.mvps.org
>> Member: http://dts-l.org
>>
>>
>> Joco wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> My PC is not retaining the system restore points, either those created
>>> automativally or manually. It seems restore points are only retained until I
>>> reboot, and then there gone.
>>> The PC drive has 3 partitions, with the following system restore settings
>>> C:\ 8% (9237 MB) Free space 88832MB, main working partition
>>> D:\ 12% (623 MB) Free 1100MB, restore partition
>>> G:\ 100% (7 MB) Free 4MB backup partition, reduced to minimum size
>>> Fragmentation is minimal 5.24% on C:\ zero on D:\ & G:\
>>> I have 2 Remote drives and system restore is disabled for both of these.
>>> My OS is XP Home SP2.
>>> Any help in resolving this would be appreciated
>>>
>>> Joco (London)
>>>
>>>
>>> Joco (London)
 
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