Re: WIN XP SYSTEM RESTORE FAILS 80%

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Hi Sam,

If any monitored drive/partition falls below 50 MB's of free disk space, all restore points will be deleted.

As Gerry recommended, stop monitoring all drives/partition other than the one Windows is installed on.

I would also suggest reducing the amount of space used to hold restore points to around 1 GB.

Tips on keeping System Restore healthy:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/healthy.html

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

USGrant wrote:
Hi,

Restore is there and works (both disks are being monitored) except: "System Restore cannot restore to date you selected. . .no changes were made. . ."
I have turned SR off and on twice now it works for a while then quits.
I just learned how to get and read LOG REVIEWER and it says, for the last two failed events: "SR was disabled because of lack of space on sys disk. There is 15gigs of free space on that disk and I have max allocation, 12% (40 gig drive)! There's only one partition on that disk.

Ideas?? Thanks

Sam Grant
Dell demension 3000
XP SP2
PLENTY MEM AND SPEED

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