Restore problems

Hi,
I haven't been able to restore for quite a long time. Here are some of the reasons the cpu tells me..
*Disk OS/C has errors. Restart to check for errors.
*Sys Res did not work. Unspecified Error.
*Sys Res did not work. Something interrupted
I also believe it told me something about the registry.

Now, I am wondering if this problem is connected to another problem I had. In November, I was continually getting. An ALERT that said Recovery D drive is almost full. I researched online and went to Control Panel/Admin Tools/Cpu Management/Disk Mgmt/R Cl D Drive/ Select Change Drive Letter and Paths/ Remove/Ok/Close (Luckily I kept notes) That solved the problem of getting the alerts.

Here is the info on the D drive.
The D drive does not have a restore point on it at this time per the SR Wizard.
The D drive is 9.9Gig and has 40 Kb free. It has a few files, Dell, N360 backup, Program Files, Sources, Tools, Users and Windows.

Would love any and all advice on how to restore Restore...LOL...and what to do about this D drive!!
Thanks very much...
Barb

Welcome,

Many times just turning off the System Restore and then booting solves the problem. This howver can cause another problem, you will have no restore point. A non working restore is better than none.

This is what I suggest. Back up all your important documents, even better back up your hard drive. You can download and use the free paragon software, if you do not have back up software, already.

Then turn off System Restore, boot the computer and turn it on see if it works.

If not
Go to search type in cmd, do not hit enter>right click and run as administrator. In cmd type sfc /scannow. You will get a report, if errors are shown try it 3 times.

The D drive was put there by Dell, pushing a certain F key, will bring you back to factory specs. That information is in the D drive. You have also received recovery DVD from Dell with the same information and capablities.

System restore should not be using that Drive.

Rather than try to explain it myself, I found this detail information about the Dell D Drive
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=145822

Here is the most important information about the D drive, from the link that I supplied
If desiered you can use the D Drive to restore to factory specs. If it is not corrupted, which it sounds like it may be.


http://support.dell.com/support/top...d=28C0548D825EB65DE040A68F5B2865A8&doclang=en