Vista Tutorial - System restore unable to restore points

I decided to use system restore on vista business to roll back to an earlier
state prior to a new driver problem.

No matter what date i select system restore begins the restore process and
eventually quits stating it was unable to complete the restore.

I have admin rights. Any ideas?

Number6 wrote:
> I decided to use system restore on vista business to roll back to an earlier
> state prior to a new driver problem.
>
> No matter what date i select system restore begins the restore process and
> eventually quits stating it was unable to complete the restore.
>
> I have admin rights. Any ideas?

Since you haven't told us anything about your computer, I can only give
you some general suggestions:

1. Do you have any Symantec products installed? If yes, see this link by
MVP Bert Kinney:

http://bertk.mvps.org/html/symantecdoc1.html

2. Do you have a Gateway computer? If yes, see this information from
Jill Zoeller, MS:

Go to System in Control Panel and open the System Protection tab. Do you
see a drive called "Missing"? Selecting C:\ and deselecting "Missing"
will allow the system to take restore points normally. Note that you
will not have any restore points to restore to until a new restore point
is made.

If neither of those things fits your situation, take a look at MVP Bert
Kinney's pages about System Restore here:

http://bertk.mvps.org/html/vista.html

Or post back with more information per this guide:

http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

You could just rollback the driver?

"Number6" <Number6@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5CDEF964-1AE0-47F6-B151-5E97F2F75A89@microsoft.com...
>I decided to use system restore on vista business to roll back to an
>earlier
> state prior to a new driver problem.
>
> No matter what date i select system restore begins the restore process and
> eventually quits stating it was unable to complete the restore.
>
> I have admin rights. Any ideas?

> I have admin rights. Any ideas?

Try to roll back the driver only.. this is possible if you go to device
manager and see the properties of the hardware listen in the device tree.

as for general system restore:


restore points form a chain of data,
not each restore point is independent of the others.
What does this mean?

This means that if one restore point is corrupt then
most probably others will be corrupt also.

I would suggest to use disk cleanup to purge all prior restore points
and create a new one