system restor funtion in properties of my computer

[sanitydc]

how do you use it? Ive had mine enabled for 90 gigs of restore, I ****** up my windows on my main partition with a bad dll install, tried to reinstall windows- lit locks up every time restore would be the easiest thing for me.. how do I restore it?

 

[mchammer]

Press F8 when booting and use the "last known good configuration"

 

[sanitydc]

that's it? that doesn't do a thing for me. just puts it right in the bad area its at now.

 

[Bozo Galora]

I have found that about 1 GB of restore is equal to about 6 months of system time.
Since you had 90Gb allocated, that should be good enough to take you back to 1933, well before your problem.

Its kinda funny, I just answered this in another thread yesterday, but that guy never came back on - so I guess he fixed it on his own.

Since you have a lock up prob, I assume you really dont want "normal old XP" restore.
(all programs/accessories/system tools/system restore)

So, what you do is tap F8 key during boot, get to the safe mode options black screen with the word safe in white in four corners, and pick safe mode with command prompt, enter
After the welcome screen starts, you pick Administrator and click it.
Then you will have DOS type cmd.exe window that will say something like this (from my memory)......
C:\>documents and setting>administrator***>
You then type this CAREFULLY [goes after the administrator>]
%systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe
and hit enter
after a bit of hesitation, the restore window will appear like magic.
rstrui obviously stands for restore user interface

a very little known handy life saving trick

Edit: note that rstrui has six letters

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: sanitydc
tried to reinstall windows

This typically ruins your restore points.

System restore is meant to restore the registry and key system files on a damaged system. You access it via safemode (F8 at start, select safemode) or via the recovery console (gotta restore things by hand).

It is not at all the same thing as a backup. Reinstalling windows will clobber your restore points making the aformentioned methods useless.

If you did not format during your reinstall attempt then your data (but not programs) are intact. If you are locking up during a reinstall then you have a hardware problem you need to correct first. If done properly setup should never fail.

 

[sanitydc]

it's just horrendously slow is all I think, cause I got through on my other partition fine. The problem may have been my tv tuner because it kept trying to install a driver for it that would not work. It was working when I tried to reinstall it and no I didn't format, I have something on the order of 400gb's of multimedia that I NEED lol, but yeah. I got on my other partition and have that running fine for now. Is there a way I can get into it still? all the files are intact I simply tried to "upgrade" my xp. So are the restore points still there? thanks very much for your help, your a life saver 😀.