Thank you for being a valued part of the CNET community. As of December 1, 2020, the forums are in read-only format. In early 2021, CNET Forums will no longer be available. We are grateful for the participation and advice you have provided to one another over the years.

Thanks,

CNET Support

General discussion

unable to set system restore point

Apr 22, 2004 11:04AM PDT

running w/me on HP pavillion t-936. Never used sys. restore and recently found it was enabled but hadn't set a restore point since 02. Needless to say I didn't want to use that one. when manually trying get unable to set restore message each time. Any ideas?
everything else is operating ok.

Discussion is locked

- Collapse -
Bobandjoyce, Have You Tried ???
Apr 22, 2004 2:05PM PDT

...installing the patch for Windows ME System Restore that Microsoft supplied at the link below?:

Checkpoints That You Create After September 8, 2001 Do Not Restore Your Computer
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=290700

Hope this helps.

Grif

- Collapse -
And If That Doesn't Help....
Apr 22, 2004 2:11PM PDT
- Collapse -
Re:unable to set system restore point
Apr 22, 2004 7:37PM PDT

There is a time limit on System Restore with ME
You can get a patch for it on Microsoft pages
Search for System retore

- Collapse -
Re:unable to set system restore point
Apr 22, 2004 10:31PM PDT

I'm not sure about ME or 98 but when your system restore hasn't been checked or accessed since 02 I would think it's reached it's storage limit, system restore automaticially set's it's own restore point each time you install a new program or an update, you can delete all but your last restore point to save disc space, this problem could be why it's not allowing you to set a new one, I could be wrong about this tho, I have limited experiance with 98 and ME

- Collapse -
Re:Re:unable to set system restore point
Apr 23, 2004 6:12PM PDT

I had the same thing happen to my Pavilion 533w which uses XP Home. The Restore Point is updated every day but only goes back 2 months. Anything older than 2 months is automatically deleted to save space. When this happened to me I couldn't do anything but order the restore disks and do a complete restore. And consequently, the reason my System Restore failed was because I was a naively misled to remove all old restore points except for the last one. For some reason it worked fine before I did that. I hope this helped.