"JamesJ" <jjy@xxxxxx_darwin.net> wrote in message
news:uaULAFbSIHA.5676@xxxxxx
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> 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 Quote:
>>
>>
>> "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 > Were you running PC Tools and Onecare together?
You can't run two antivirus programs at the same time . . .
Does PC Tools scan the boot sectors during boot? If it does, and writes to
the disk (even just a log) before Vista is doing the disk chores this could
be the problem.
I'm assuming the restore point is still available BEFORE a reboot, after its
creation, correct?
If this is indeed the case, this tells me that SOMETHING must be writing to
the disk, or making some change to the disk, that Windows sees as an
"untrackable" change casing it to remove the restore points.
I found this out by accident. I was using Perfect Disk and when I ran a
boot-time defrag noticed all my restore points were gone. After a little
Googling I found all this out about how Vista handles restore points.
Again, any little change done before Windows is handling all disk operations
will remove all restore points, that's where I'd start my search in your
position.
Mic