Guest Joco Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 Hi, My PC is not retaining the system restore points, either those created automativally or manually. It seems restore points are only retained until I reboot, and then there gone. The PC drive has 3 partitions, with the following system restore settings C:\ 8% (9237 MB) Free space 88832MB, main working partition D:\ 12% (623 MB) Free 1100MB, restore partition G:\ 100% (7 MB) Free 4MB backup partition, reduced to minimum size Fragmentation is minimal 5.24% on C:\ zero on D:\ & G:\ I have 2 Remote drives and system restore is disabled for both of these. My OS is XP Home SP2. Any help in resolving this would be appreciated Joco (London) Joco (London)
Guest Bert Kinney Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 Re: Windows System Restore Points Hi Joco, Stop monitoring the G: partition and the missing restore point problem should go away. System Restore requires a minimum of 200 MB of free disk space on the system drive at installation. When the amount of free disk space falls below 50 MB on ANY monitored drive, System Restore switches to standby mode and stops creating restore points. All restore points are deleted at that time. System Restore reactivates and resumes creating restore points as soon as 200 MB of disk space is free on the system drive. Monitoring the restore partition (D:) will be of little or no benefit either. I would suggest monitoring ONLY the partition Windows is installed on. Here is a description of System Restore: http://bertk.mvps.org/html/description.html Troubleshooting missing restore points: http://bertk.mvps.org/html/missingrps.html Regards, Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User http://bertk.mvps.org Member: http://dts-l.org Joco wrote: > Hi, > My PC is not retaining the system restore points, either those created > automativally or manually. It seems restore points are only retained until I > reboot, and then there gone. > The PC drive has 3 partitions, with the following system restore settings > C:\ 8% (9237 MB) Free space 88832MB, main working partition > D:\ 12% (623 MB) Free 1100MB, restore partition > G:\ 100% (7 MB) Free 4MB backup partition, reduced to minimum size > Fragmentation is minimal 5.24% on C:\ zero on D:\ & G:\ > I have 2 Remote drives and system restore is disabled for both of these. > My OS is XP Home SP2. > Any help in resolving this would be appreciated > > Joco (London) > > > Joco (London)
Guest Joco Posted July 14, 2007 Posted July 14, 2007 Re: Windows System Restore Points Bert Hi, Thanks for your responce which worked. Yesterday I stopped monitoring all partitions except the one with windows on, and this morning I have the restore points created yesterday. Thanks Joco "Bert Kinney" wrote: > Hi Joco, > > Stop monitoring the G: partition and the missing restore point problem > should go away. > > System Restore requires a minimum of 200 MB of free disk space on the system > drive at installation. When the amount of free disk space falls below 50 MB > on ANY monitored drive, System Restore switches to standby mode and stops > creating restore points. All restore points are deleted at that time. System > Restore reactivates and resumes creating restore points as soon as 200 MB of > disk space is free on the system drive. > > Monitoring the restore partition (D:) will be of little or no benefit > either. I would suggest monitoring ONLY the partition Windows is installed on. > > Here is a description of System Restore: > http://bertk.mvps.org/html/description.html > > Troubleshooting missing restore points: > http://bertk.mvps.org/html/missingrps.html > > Regards, > Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User > http://bertk.mvps.org > Member: http://dts-l.org > > > Joco wrote: > > Hi, > > My PC is not retaining the system restore points, either those created > > automativally or manually. It seems restore points are only retained until I > > reboot, and then there gone. > > The PC drive has 3 partitions, with the following system restore settings > > C:\ 8% (9237 MB) Free space 88832MB, main working partition > > D:\ 12% (623 MB) Free 1100MB, restore partition > > G:\ 100% (7 MB) Free 4MB backup partition, reduced to minimum size > > Fragmentation is minimal 5.24% on C:\ zero on D:\ & G:\ > > I have 2 Remote drives and system restore is disabled for both of these. > > My OS is XP Home SP2. > > Any help in resolving this would be appreciated > > > > Joco (London) > > > > > > Joco (London) >
Guest Bert Kinney Posted July 14, 2007 Posted July 14, 2007 Re: Windows System Restore Points You're welcome Joco. Thanks for the feedback. Regards, Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User http://bertk.mvps.org Member: http://dts-l.org Joco wrote: > Bert Hi, > > Thanks for your responce which worked. > Yesterday I stopped monitoring all partitions except the one with windows > on, and this morning I have the restore points created yesterday. > > Thanks > Joco > > "Bert Kinney" wrote: > >> Hi Joco, >> >> Stop monitoring the G: partition and the missing restore point problem >> should go away. >> >> System Restore requires a minimum of 200 MB of free disk space on the system >> drive at installation. When the amount of free disk space falls below 50 MB >> on ANY monitored drive, System Restore switches to standby mode and stops >> creating restore points. All restore points are deleted at that time. System >> Restore reactivates and resumes creating restore points as soon as 200 MB of >> disk space is free on the system drive. >> >> Monitoring the restore partition (D:) will be of little or no benefit >> either. I would suggest monitoring ONLY the partition Windows is installed on. >> >> Here is a description of System Restore: >> http://bertk.mvps.org/html/description.html >> >> Troubleshooting missing restore points: >> http://bertk.mvps.org/html/missingrps.html >> >> Regards, >> Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User >> http://bertk.mvps.org >> Member: http://dts-l.org >> >> >> Joco wrote: >>> Hi, >>> My PC is not retaining the system restore points, either those created >>> automativally or manually. It seems restore points are only retained until I >>> reboot, and then there gone. >>> The PC drive has 3 partitions, with the following system restore settings >>> C:\ 8% (9237 MB) Free space 88832MB, main working partition >>> D:\ 12% (623 MB) Free 1100MB, restore partition >>> G:\ 100% (7 MB) Free 4MB backup partition, reduced to minimum size >>> Fragmentation is minimal 5.24% on C:\ zero on D:\ & G:\ >>> I have 2 Remote drives and system restore is disabled for both of these. >>> My OS is XP Home SP2. >>> Any help in resolving this would be appreciated >>> >>> Joco (London) >>> >>> >>> Joco (London)
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