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Why is it System Restore only works for me 30% of the time

CrystalBay

CrystalBay

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I keep scratching my head about this, sometimes it even seems to shut off by itself...Plus more than half the time it wont restore my system back...I'm using XP Pro BTW.........TIA...
 
Perhaps a little more specific informatiopn will help. I can say I have used system restore on friends/family/other PCs with a 100% success rate. I don't use it on my personal computer. Ghost is my restore for myself.

\Dan
 
Hi Dan , I have gone to use SR on several occasions and it gets through the process and says "windows is unable to complete system restore" ... and system is not restored back to prior config.... Is it just me or do any others have problems with this occuring?
 
Wild guess is that you are talking about a non clean restore, ie take my mess of a hard drive and try to put XP back into a new state, but leave all my junk alone so I don't have to reinstall my games etc. My guess is that when your drive is REALLY hosed the limited smarts on the restore CD can't put stuff back without messing up some of the stuff you want to keep. Time to choose, live with the troubles, or do a clean install.

OTOH maybe you have some pesky hardware problem or a virus.
 
I had this problem once or twice and ended up doing a repair install. That didn't lose anything that i had installed and system restore worked well since. I do use Ghost also as a backup (I have a totally clean Ghost image of the original install with only Ghost and Video drivers, and one without video drivers) but system restore is much faster if needed. I haven't needed it since the repair install. I'm not sure what caused that to be needed, probably some software incompatibility (I use a lot of old software that has to run in compatibility mode) but I'm guessing it was connected to a file utility that I found without the compatibility mode turned on. No probs now though!:beer:
 
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