Cannot Restore

[blockie]

For the past week I have not been able to restore to any of the restore points. I go thru the motions and when the machine reboots I get a msg that it could not restore.
A couple of days ago I booted into safe mode turned off system restore and rebooted normally. The restore points were now gone. I then turned system restore back on and began accumulating restore points. Tried to restore again tonight and it did not work.
Any ideas?

[jlreich]

Have look here (http://bertk.mvps.org/html/error.html) and see if any of these are the error you are getting.

Hope that helps.

[Sylvander]

Wouldn't you be MUCH better off using image backups than System Restore?

If Windows isn't functioning, an image [restored from an internal or external drive/partition using a prog loaded from a bootable disk] can get Windows working again, whereas System Restore would be of no help at all.

i.e. Restoring an image can do all that System Restore can do and more. :)

[blockie]

I do make images on an external HDD in case the C; drives goes kaput or it gets so clogged that is the best way to go.
However, System Restore I can back away from and generally it has corrected minor problems.
Reading some of the literature I see tells me to reinstall the System Restore. How do I do that? Do I need to uninstall it first? How?

[jlreich]

Here are the instructions (http://bertk.mvps.org/html/tips.html#ReinstallSR) from the website. You will most likely need an XP CD handy.