i have done 2-3 system retores in the last few weeks, and needed to do another today, but it won't let me? it say's "unable to restore". my hard drive has allocated 12% of available space for a restore. Do i have to delete certain restore points before i can make another restore possible? if so how do i do this? When i've looked into deleting a restore point it says my machine will be started with the same settings of that date? Any help very much appreciated.
2007-01-22 09:36:44 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Many times, there are reasons that the computer is unable to restore itself. Usually it works; if you go too far back, there just isn't enough information to bring it back.
Your computer does automatic restore points - and you have "X" amount of space allocated to restores. Eventually it will start using the space of the oldest restore points to create new ones.
As a note: the answer Ernie gives above is not really true. You CAN make your restore area bigger but it won't help you now. It's also not a great idea to make restore area large because it'll eat up your hard drive. You also can't delete them as he stated. YOu only can delete through Disk Cleanup and you delete ALL but the Last - so be careful.
This is where getting Norton GHOST is so valuable. You can ghost your drive (identical duplication saved to another hard drive, disk, etc) that you can bring back. Looks like you may be to the point of a reinstall...... what a pain.
2007-01-22 09:44:40 · answer #1 · answered by longhats 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
agree with longhats, looks like a reinstall might be in the future. If you have the windows cd you can boot from it and try the repair option to see if that helps. Not sure if it will because I don't know what your problems are.
Also, if you do reinstall, try to get out of the habit of using system restore. It is a terrible utility that restores your registry settings to a former state. This can be dangerous if you have added or removed software since then.
For instance, if you remove software that was bundled with the computer and set to load during startup, and then do a system restore to a point before you removed it, you will get errors on boot up. The software you deleted will still be gone but the registry was restored to a former state that expects it to be there. when the computer looks for it on boot, you get weird errors and unpredictable results.
System Restore = terrible application. DON'T USE IT.
2007-01-22 09:54:16 · answer #2 · answered by Steve 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you could try restoring it in safe mode with command restart your com on the first screen press F8 a couple of times a new screen will com up select safe mode with command prompt a u will see aload of drivers load up just let it pass sign i your user account u will get a black screen (WRITE THIS DOWN) type in cd c:/windows/system32/restore then press enter then type rstrui then press enter and u will know the rest if this doesnt work youll have to reinstall windows im afraid ........good look ps dont forget to put a space between cd and c
2007-01-22 13:56:35 · answer #3 · answered by lee e 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Click on properties and increase restore space.Or delete other restore points.
2007-01-22 09:43:57 · answer #4 · answered by taxed till i die,and then some. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-15 23:06:11 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋