System Restore Doesn't Work!

Posted by: bluetones, May 1st, 2008, 4:41am

Couldn't find this earlier, but I have a problem with System Restore on Win XP Professional......

When I try to revert to a previous Restore Point, I always get the message that "cannot restore" to the selected restore point. No explanation given. Picking all restore points gives the same result. Even if I set a restore point manually and later try to restore to that point, it doesn't work......this has been going on for some time, but I thought I would give the expert a shot. Tried Reg Vac, Spy Bot, Adaware, etc. nothing helps......any ideas??

Posted by: Ray, May 1st, 2008, 11:52pm; Reply: 1

I don't know.

Posted by: bluetones, May 2nd, 2008, 2:51pm; Reply: 2

Thought I would try. I was hoping there was a known problem.....I have the knack for having errors no one else has seen!! Thanks anyway!

Posted by: Ray, May 2nd, 2008, 4:53pm; Reply: 3

Maybe someone else knows the answer. I don't know everything. I have heard of problems with System Restore.

Posted by: haroldz, May 3rd, 2008, 3:39pm; Reply: 4

Save yourself some grief. I gave up on System Restore long ago. It is not reliable, as you have discovered. Get Acronis or some similar drive backup program and use it regularly.

Posted by: alanturk, May 4th, 2008, 9:30pm; Reply: 5

It didn't work for me either. I thought it was just me being useless! I use Acronis, which seems pretty good.

Posted by: quinland, May 5th, 2008, 12:12am; Reply: 6

Don't forget WinRescue. I've been saved from unwise installs a number of times.
Get it at the RegVac site. No Ray did not prompt me to say this. I 've been using WinRescue since Win98 and it has saved my skin many times.

Posted by: corandy, May 5th, 2008, 12:28am; Reply: 7

see discussion thread on "SYSTEM RESTORE doesn't restore" during February 2008 in this forum! - http://www.regvac.com/forum/m-1201984976/

Note the comments about Norton's and the comment about running system restore in the safe mode.

Posted by: dogbreath99605, May 21st, 2008, 5:35am; Reply: 8

My System restore has never worked either, I've reinstalled Windows a few times and tried every solution I could read about but to no avail, I think I'm going to use one of my TechNet Support Tickets to get a solution before they expire next week, when and if they can get it to work I'll be sure to share the solution with everyone. :-/

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