Restore points disappearing

Discussion in 'Software' started by ethveg, Apr 14, 2011.

  1. ethveg

    ethveg Private E-2

    On XP SP3, restore points I create are gone a few days later. One or two new ones have been created automatically, but the ones I created are gone. I've allotted maximum available memory for restore points so it's probably not a space problem.

    A search for the name I gave such a point finds no matches.

    Any idea where I can change a setting which prevents "old" points from being deleted?

    TIA
     
    ethveg, Apr 14, 2011
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  2. abekl

    abekl First Sergeant

    Unfortunately, no. Restore points work on a first-in-first-out basis.
     
    abekl, Apr 14, 2011
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  3. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

    How large a hard drive do you have?

    I just checked on my XP SP3 and I have restore points for January, February, March and April available.

    It is easy to check the dates by going into CCleaner, clicking on Tools and then System Restore. It shows me all the points I have available. I could remove all but the last restore point if I wished.
     
    plodr, Apr 14, 2011
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  4. oneeyejack

    oneeyejack Guest

    Why do you have so many. I'll bet half of them are corrupted and unusable. I only allow 5% for restore points. I have plenty and there are times when they aren't any good;)
     
    oneeyejack, Apr 14, 2011
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  5. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi

    What size is your HDD? and you set System restore to 100%?

    How ofter are you creating system restore points?

    I would feel that if you need to fully backup your PC you would be better serves by a dedicated backup Imaging aplication like Acronis True Image, Easeus ToDO or Macrium Reflect and backup to an external or secondary internal HDD or DVD.

    These applications create a full copy of your HDD install of Windows and apps and in the event of a crash ect you can recover the last image file and its as if you never had any issues, your PC is back to how it was, timescale of backup is whenever you create them you can do it hourly/daily/weekly/monthly the schedule is upto you.

    I use this method of imaging and have a limited number of System Restore points as in space allocated for generally two only.






    In responce to Plodr's post on her SR points.
    I wouldnt as Windows is not that bad at not corrupting System restore points! I've never had a SR point corrupted and I'm running Win XP, Vista and 7 on multiple PCs. Whiel it can happen it wouldnt likely happen in a 50% scenario and if it did it would be likely 3rd party or user error (user error in tweaking what they did not understand but read on a website somewhere).
     
    DavidGP, Apr 15, 2011
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  6. oneeyejack

    oneeyejack Guest

    Hi David!!
    I was being a little over board. I have had restore points fail several times. I don't know the reason, but I don't do much tweaking. Your advice about making a back up image was excellent. Very nice my friend. I will click the thank you on that post. I read some where that restore points relies on the previous restore point. What that means, I'm not sure. If you had a bad one , maybe all in front of it would be bad?????????? Or all in back would be bad??????? I just know you can't trust them to work. A back up image of your OS is the only way to go!!
     
    oneeyejack, Apr 15, 2011
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  7. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    I think where you are going with that is previous versions is based off the restore points, previous versions is part of shadow copy and not so bad write up HERE
     
    DavidGP, Apr 15, 2011
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