I have a 3rd party defragmenting program that will delete the restore points
and shadow copies every time I do a boot time defrag.
That being said, I don't use system restore anyway. I have it turned off and
use TrueImage to make daily, incremental, system images.
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Richard Urban
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"Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> Julian wrote:
>> This has happened on my Vista HP system several times.
>> Anyone know why this might happen?
>> (I haven't run any disk clean-up processes.)
>
> Are you dual-booting with XP? If yes, this is a known issue. Are you
> running any Symantec products? If yes, this is a known issue. Here are
> links that will help you:
>
> MVP Bert Kinney on System Restore - http://bertk.mvps.org/html/vista.html
>
> Problems caused by Symantec - http://bertk.mvps.org/html/symantecdoc1.html
>
> Missing Restore Points/Shadow Copies in Windows Vista -
> http://bertk.mvps.org/html/missingrpv.html
>
> System Restore - Error Messages in Vista -
> http://bertk.mvps.org/html/eerrormsgsv.html
>
>
> Malke
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