Re: system restor not working!!!

Hello Bert,

I feel elated!

Here was I fuming at MS. I have been plagued by bugs. Norton Antivirus 2005
came preinstalled with my MCE. When the subscription expired after 30 days, I
purchased a package - Norton System(Doesn't)Works Premier and Internet
Security 2006. These programmes were installed to provide safety and
protection to my system. It was then that I came to notice a heap of
undesirable flaws like System Restore failing when it was needed.

Norton Ghost (part of SystemWorks Premier) refuses to write its recovery
images to my DVD drive, and seems to render the drive useless with "D:\ is
not accessible. Incorrect function." It's a long saga, but Norton support
have thrown at me, every destructive "work around" in their arsonal. Every
suggestion - from changing drive letters to purchasing more software and
hardware - has proven to be more insidious than the most virulent of vruses.

Pleeasssee. I am a humble consumer with no Operating Sytem Discs, just a
disc containing an OEM's image of a factory hard drive created almost two
years ago. I have sixty-eight windows updates to make every time I re-install
this image. I also have a dozen or so Office patches, and countless other
applications to install, not to mention the hours spent resetting my Personal
Preferences... only to repeat the process when another glitch hits the system.

I want to make an image of my hard-drive in its up-to-date, functional and
happy guise, or at least be able to slipstream the patches and programmes
into my own installation disks. Please.

Norton GoBack was a total disaster. After Norton WinDoctor left half my
applications non-functional. I tried to GoBack to a restore point 20 minutes
earlier. My poor laptop steamed away for eight hours. Yes! Eight hours,
during which time, Norton support insisted I not interrupt the process. They
also informed me that GoBack is not compatible with my RAID-0 configuration.
Well... a bit late. Uninstalling GoBack, firstly required it to be disabled.
I discovered that this disablement required my computer to steam away at
full capacity, locked in the GoBack interface, for another eight hours. Yes!
ANOTHER EIGHT HOURS!

Currently, I suspect a virus or trojan has simply wandered through Norton
Personal Firewall onto my sytem, because an insistent pop-up keeps informing
me that an unidentified programme wishes to connect to [My Computer's Name]
via the internet. Norton's scans and logs show that it is totally oblivious
to this.

To top this off, Media Center's Live TV "hangs" my entire system everytime I
switch to one particular high-definition channel. I've had the laptop's
monitor pop to black, and I've had a screaming BEEEEEP. I've had it all. And
I've paid more than the dollar premium to buy this Media Center Laptop.

Now you have provided me with the information that it is Norton who is
responsible for the aggravating failure of Sytem Restore.

I am over the moon! Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Regards,

AllanF


"Bert Kinney" wrote:

Hi Phil,

I assume you are logged on as an administrator.

Try running System Restore from Safe Mode.
Restart your computer, and then press F8 during the initial startup to
start your computer in Safe Mode.

Log on to your computer with an administrator account or with an account
that has administrator credentials.
In Safe Mode type or paste the following command in the Start - Run box
then press Enter.

%systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe

There are also other possibilities that can cause this to happen. The
following pages have some troubleshooting steps to take.

Troubleshooting steps to take when System Restore fails to restore:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srfail.html

How to Disable and Enable System Restore
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/disablesr.html

Here are some tips on keeping System Restore Healthy and hopefully
keep the restore points from becoming corrupted in the future.
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/healthy.htm

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


"phil brown" <phil brown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1CF26188-3985-4D11-9666-6608FDE719F3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
hi i have resently built my new computer it has had its first hickup
though.
the system restore does not work i am using xp home sp2 fully updated
ect.
but when i go to click on anything to do with system restore it says
"system
restore is unavalible at this time please restart and try again." so i
do but
nothing i check to make sure its on yep its on then i click the box to
try
and restart it i click turn off system restor same message system
restore is
unavalible restart and try again." so i do nothin. can you guys help
me
please.



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