Don't believe software is accessing the drive prior to Windows starting.
No dual boot.
Vista reports my disk drive as a standard: ST3160812A ATA - 150gb with 134gb
free.
Anti-Virus software is by PC Tools.
This problem wasn't occurring before but I can't say exactly when it
started 'cause I only manually create restore points when I install new
software.
The first time I noticed this was when I created a restore point before
installing
Live Onecare trial and tryeds to restore the system back. I must say this
problem
could have been there before installing Onecare.
James
"Michael Palumbo" <micjustmic@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OU7H84aSIHA.5104@xxxxxx
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> "JamesJ" <jjy@xxxxxx_darwin.net> wrote in message
> news:eukhAMaSIHA.4152@xxxxxx Quote:
>> Don't know why, but now System Restore allows creation of
>> a restore point but after rebooting the restore point is gone.
>> Says that no restore points were created on this system.
>>
>> Any help will be appreciated,
>> James
>
> Are you using any third party disk tools?
>
> Perfect Disk or Diskeeper?
>
> Any utility that accesses the disk outside of Windows (during boot, for
> example) will cause Windows to erase all restore points. This is due to
> the fact that the software is modifying the disk outside of Windows
> "control" so Windows has no way of tracking the changes, making the
> restore points unusable.
>
> Also, if you're dual-booting with XP, when XP is run all restore points
> for Vista will be erased as well, for basically the same reason(s).
>
> If neither of these is the case, can you provide more information about
> the hardware/software that you are running?
>
> Mic