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From: jimgobucks46 on 9 Aug 2010 00:23 i can't get system restore to go back to a previous month...i have only 2 restore points in august and i need to go back to july...i click on the previus month arrow but nothing happens...any thoughts?
From: PA Bear [MS MVP] on 9 Aug 2010 01:37 You don't have Restore Points going back that far? Your computer's infected & not fully-patched? jimgobucks46 wrote: > i can't get system restore to go back to a previous month...i have only 2 > restore points in august and i need to go back to july...i click on the > previus month arrow but nothing happens...any thoughts?
From: Paul on 9 Aug 2010 06:24 jimgobucks46 wrote: > i can't get system restore to go back to a previous month...i have only 2 > restore points in august and i need to go back to july...i click on the > previus month arrow but nothing happens...any thoughts? You can assign a limited amount of space, for the "System Volume Information" folder on your C: drive. Mine is set to the default of 12% of the C: drive. Perhaps if you'd turned that number down severely, it has limited the maximum space the restore points can hold ? Right now, I can click the arrow on the "calendar" of System Restore, and mine goes back to May.11, 2010. If I look in the "System Volume Information" folder, I see System Volume Information _restore{xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx} RP166 May 11, 2010 RP167 May 12, 2010 ... RP232 Aug 8, 2010 drivetable.txt fifo.log _driver.cfg _filelist.cfg So at least, I have restore point folders which correspond to what my calendar is doing in the System Restore screen. (The oldest restore point is thrown away, when a new one needs to be written, and my 12% of space is used up. If your space allocation setting is very small, there might only be room for two restore points.) There are some recipes for gaining access to that folder, here. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=309531 ( got link from http://wiki.lunarsoft.net/wiki/System_Volume_Information ) If you have two restore points in August, and today is August 9, my guess would be, those two points used up all the allocated space. Moving the slider to some minimum value would have done that. Like I said above, mine is set to 12% of my C: drive (for no particular reason, and no, I would not try to restore to May.11 :-) ). And as a consequence, my calendar has several months worth, And I only see a couple dates missing from that collection. Otherwise, I'm averaging about one RP a day. My average restore point size is about 40MB or so (just holding my mouse over a few of the RPxxx folders and getting size info). And a good deal of that (perhaps 75%), is registry files. If you didn't want to fool around with the permissions on the files that they made so hard to get to, booting a Linux LiveCD should give you access to that folder, so you can check dates and folder info. Ubuntu and Knoppix are examples of LiveCD distros, suitable for simple maintenance tasks. By default, Knoppix tends to mount things read-only, which gives some protection against doing stupid things. You have to know which dialog to enter, in Knoppix, to change access to the Windows partition to read/write, which means you explicitly are giving permission to make changes. Which is a nuisance and a feature, all in one. Paul
From: Nil on 9 Aug 2010 12:29 On 09 Aug 2010, =?Utf-8?B?amltZ29idWNrczQ2?= <jimgobucks46(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general: > i can't get system restore to go back to a previous month...i have > only 2 restore points in august and i need to go back to july...i > click on the previus month arrow but nothing happens...any > thoughts? Only the dates in bold have a restore point associated with them. If it's not, and nothing happens, you're just plain out of luck. If you think you will need more restore points available in the future, you need to change the settings to dedicate more disk space for them.
From: Ken Blake, MVP on 9 Aug 2010 14:56
On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:24:30 -0400, Paul <nospam(a)needed.com> wrote: > jimgobucks46 wrote: > > i can't get system restore to go back to a previous month...i have only 2 > > restore points in august and i need to go back to july...i click on the > > previus month arrow but nothing happens...any thoughts? > > You can assign a limited amount of space, for the "System Volume Information" > folder on your C: drive. Mine is set to the default of 12% of the C: drive. > > Perhaps if you'd turned that number down severely, it has limited the > maximum space the restore points can hold ? > > Right now, I can click the arrow on the "calendar" of System Restore, > and mine goes back to May.11, 2010. The default is too big for most people. If your restore points go back to May 11, that's three months, and going back that far is almost always a poor idea. Going back too far tends to get your registry out of synch with other files on the drive. So I recommend changing the amount of disk space you give it to create no more than a week or two of restore points. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003 Please Reply to the Newsgroup |