Is there a tool for testing restore points for validity on Windows 7

What do you make images with?

 

It's almost midnight, I still have the two restore points I had several hours ago.

 

I did notice this in the event log

volsnap The shadow copies of volume C: were aborted because of an IO failure on volume C:.

That's the only red item in the system log from yeserday. In between when the restore points were present and when they were first noticed missing.

 

It's 8:53 AM on Monday and the restore points I manually created on Saturday are still there.

 

It sure is a recent record. It looks to me like they are being deleted on a schedule. I looked through the task scheduler but I didn't find an scheduled event. I half expected to. But no.

 

This is an interesting thread because I had problems with my system restore in Win7 which were troubling. At first, I was surprised at how few are created in Win7. I upped the allotted space and got more, but never the same comfortable number offered in XP.

I then noticed that my "System Protection" button had disappeared. I noticed this because I had wanted to "create a restore point" which I could only find by clicking on the System Protection button. I restored the computer using one of the system restore points that is created automatically and received the message that it had been successful. When I later opened my admin account, I received the message that it had not been successful.

I reformatted and reinstalled Win7, reset the allotted space for the system restore points and then it worked again. I always suspected malware in that particular case.

One of the things I find disconcerting about the upgrades from one operating system to the next, is that it seems to be harder and harder to keep an overview of what the computer is doing. With each successive version, the transparency seems to be disappearing a little bit more. (could be my imagination)

 

I now have two restore points that are over 48 hours old, one manual, one that was created by a tool from tweaking.com

Woo hoo.

 

I ran chkdks /f /r overnight.
My two restore points are gone.
I don't know if that is related or not.

 

I have a new automatic restore point created by windows update tonight. Cool.

 

We had our monthly updates today plodr but both our Win 7 systems have retained all their restore points, some going back to April 2014 (System Image restore points seem to be retained permanently).

 

I think we are on the trail of this mystery.

I really didn't like CCleaner. It wanted to run all the time and do things, and I like to know what is being done. A conflict. Similar to the conflict we have with the restore points not being reliable.

When I started working on this, I had restore points, but they could not be used. Corrupted, if I tried to use them.