System Restore Fails for Day Old Restore Points ?

From: Bill (wsons_at_aol.com)
Date: 08/20/03


Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 19:37:41 -0700


I'm having the exact same problem. Someone please help!

Bill
>-----Original Message-----
>HELP!!
>
>Every time I try to run restore points that are at least
>1 day+ old, the Restore Process will fail; as being
>Incomplete. I always get the following error: "A
>restoration to 'System Checkpoint' restore point failed.
>No changes have been made to the system." No further
>information is provided to point me in to the right
>direction for troubleshooting. The Microsoft Knowledge
>Base is a dead end.
>
>I have 2 physical hard drives, and 5 partitions; C-D-E-F-
>G. Drives D-G are only for storage, so I have System
>Restore Monitoring turned off for theses drives. Drive
C
>is the only drive I have monitored. XP Pro SP1a is
>installed on drive C, which is a 30Gig drive, and it has
>20Gig of free space and 3Gig reserved just for System
>Restore Points. I don't understand why it will always
>fail for any restore points that are older than a day,
>but not ones that I recently created. I have full Admin
>rights for this account and I have even tried system
>restore in Safe Mode without success. I checked in
>services, and my System Restore Service is set to
>Automatic.
>
>For the record I have an ABIT IC7 motherboard; P4c 3Ghz
>CPU; 1Gb of PC3500 Ram; ATI 9700 Radeon Video Card; SB
>Live 5.1 Card. Some programs I have installed are
Norton
>Utilities 2002 & Anti-Virus 2002; MS Office 2000
Premium;
>Kazaa Lite.
>
>If anyone can offer some suggestions I'd greatly
>appreciate it. Thanks a million
>
>Courtney
>
>.
>



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