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I need your help! (XP System Restore) <=== SOLVED!

Insidious

Insidious

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So I decided it was time to look for some driver updates and went to set a System Restore Point first

When I tried, I got this little love note From WindowsXP ????

I checked in the system manager and it says System Restore is enabled and monitoring C: (as it should)

To try and be sure, I disabled it, booted enabled it again, booted again, but still the same thing????

I have no clue what I have done to kill it :/

Thanks (in advance) for any of your ideas


My system info is shown below (MyRigThingy)

PS: Yes, I did restart and try it again, and again, and again .......
 
^^^

Only a little more info. after lots of poking around....

When I disable, then boot, then enable.... It works until the next boot.

Something is getting overwritten, deleted, or whatever when windows shuts down or on

the next start up.

Anyone know what files are involved in the restore process??

Any ideas at all about how to fix this mess?

I'm not at a place to have time to re-install all this stuff.........
 
Hmm you tried increasing the system restore disk space? Mine is set to max(bar right across to right side).
 
yeah, when I go to the settings, it is set for 12%(3433MB).

I am also showing 10.1GB free space on the drive.


It seems to have something to do with the way my OS shutsdown or starts up.

If I disable system restore (check the box in settings), do a boot and then

re-enable it, I can set a restore point OK. Then when I re-start the machine

the restore point is removed and I cannot set another one.


from reading other posts about this (I found a couple old ones) it looks like a

Windows re-install solves the problem. But without finding a cause, I think it would

just come back again. So I am trying to find another solution.

Thanks for the idea though
 
I had that problem. I finally threw my hands up and called MS support. We worked on it for days through E-mail with no resolution.

I gave up and reinstalled. It hasn't happened since.

BTW, that was my only problem with the OS besides a RAID card driver problem.
 

I too, have come to believe that the re-install solution is the only one known to date.......

I appreciate the thoughts and time from each of you.


PS: Like AmusedOne, this is the only "real" issue I have faced with XP... I'm still a believer
 
***************YaHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!***********************

Solved the sucker (well, with a little help from Paul's Unofficial KG7 FAQ

It was the Highpoint HPT370 drivers version 2.3!

The baffling part was that when I originally rolled them back to their previous version, the problem was not solved.......

With some sleuthing on my own, I found a file Windows/system32/drivers/hptpro.sys that was left behind from the V2.3 driver update.......

Once I deleted it (with the HPT370 drivers rolled back to version 2.0.1019.0) I had system restore functionality back


note: I disabled system restore monitoring during the driver change and file deletion, but don't know if that was really necessary
 
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