RE: How Can I Make Restore Useful?
From: Liz Murphy (LizMurphy_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/22/04
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Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 22:03:01 -0700
Hi Jim,
Those answers were sound advice.
To answer your other question, no, you cannot make a fixed restore point, or
save one. You should create a full backup if you want that functionality.
One reason your system volume information files might become corrupt is the
computer locking up and/or you powering it off without going through
shut-down while it's in the middle of setting a system restore point.
Unfortunately the only way to tell is to go all the way through what appears
to be a restore until you get "restore failed .. no changes were made..."
Whenever I have a power failure or have to power off without shutdown I
assume that it's corrupt until I go check the date of the most recent restore
point, about every three months more or less, I use it to restore to the most
recent point, to assure myself that it's there and it's storing usable
restore points.
I'm sure there are other ways that it gets corrupted, too.
hope this helps,
Liz
"jim evans" wrote:
>
> Every time I need to use the restore function it doesn't work.
>
> First, I've created several restore points in the past, but after a
> couple of weeks pass they disappear. Just now I went to the restore
> function and there were only restore points going back about 10 days.
> I tried the oldest and after it ground away and did all its stuff and
> rebooted the said "Couldn't use that restore point. No changes were
> made. Try another." I tried a couple of others, but I knew there was
> no point, because every time I get one of those restore failures
> (which is virtually every time I need them) none of the other restore
> points work either.
>
> Is there a way to make it keep a restore point I want to save for a
> couple of months?
>
> How can make the automatically saved restore points work when I need
> them?
>
> jim
>
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