Vanishing restore points on drive C:

Vista Ultimate x64
C: 50GB
D: 280GB

I have configured System Protection to protect drives C: and D: but the
restore points on drive C: go missing after a day or so. The restore points
on drive D: are being retained.

I have tried creating manual restore points and it creates them without any
problems - other than that they disappear some hours later. It does create
daily restore points but they too are vanishing after a while.

There is over 15GB of free space on drive C: and in all other respects the
system is working perfectly.

Any suggestions as to how to get the restore points to be retained?

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Are you running any system cleanup/optimizing programs? Some are a bit
over-aggressive in what they remove.

Michael


"Qu0ll" <> wrote in message
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> Vista Ultimate x64
> C: 50GB
> D: 280GB
>
> I have configured System Protection to protect drives C: and D: but the
> restore points on drive C: go missing after a day or so. The restore
> points on drive D: are being retained.
>
> I have tried creating manual restore points and it creates them without
> any problems - other than that they disappear some hours later. It does
> create daily restore points but they too are vanishing after a while.
>
> There is over 15GB of free space on drive C: and in all other respects the
> system is working perfectly.
>
> Any suggestions as to how to get the restore points to be retained?
>
> --
> And loving it,
>
> -Q
> _________________________________________________
>
> (Replace the "SixFour" with numbers to email me)

"Michael Walraven" <> wrote in message
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> Are you running any system cleanup/optimizing programs? Some are a bit
> over-aggressive in what they remove.

Thanks but no, nothing like that. I have Crap Cleaner but it is not running
and the problem was there before I installed it.

Any other suggestions/ideas?

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And loving it,

-Q
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Sometimes the system restore cache becomes corrupt. You can try this, but
you will loose all points that you may have saved.

Go to Computer | Properties | Advanced System Settings | System Protection

Turn off restore on all drives. Reboot. Then do the above a 2nd time and
turn on protection for your selected drives. This will have cleared out the
old cache and will begin the formation of a new one. See if it works now.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)



"Qu0ll" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Vista Ultimate x64
> C: 50GB
> D: 280GB
>
> I have configured System Protection to protect drives C: and D: but the
> restore points on drive C: go missing after a day or so. The restore
> points on drive D: are being retained.
>
> I have tried creating manual restore points and it creates them without
> any problems - other than that they disappear some hours later. It does
> create daily restore points but they too are vanishing after a while.
>
> There is over 15GB of free space on drive C: and in all other respects the
> system is working perfectly.
>
> Any suggestions as to how to get the restore points to be retained?
>
> --
> And loving it,
>
> -Q
> _________________________________________________
>
> (Replace the "SixFour" with numbers to email me)

"Richard Urban" <> wrote in message
news:...

> Sometimes the system restore cache becomes corrupt. You can try this, but
> you will loose all points that you may have saved.
>
> Go to Computer | Properties | Advanced System Settings | System Protection
>
> Turn off restore on all drives. Reboot. Then do the above a 2nd time and
> turn on protection for your selected drives. This will have cleared out
> the > old cache and will begin the formation of a new one. See if it works
> now.

OK thanks Richard, I'll give it a go and report back in a day or so.

--
And loving it,

-Q
_________________________________________________

(Replace the "SixFour" with numbers to email me)

"Qu0ll" <> wrote in message
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> OK thanks Richard, I'll give it a go and report back in a day or so.

Sadly, it didn't work - the C: drive restore point has been blown away
already.

How can I get restore points created on the C: drive to persist?

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And loving it,

-Q
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Are you dual booting with Windows XP?

Are you doing a boot time defrag with PerfectDisk?

Both of these things will delete restore points.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)



"Qu0ll" <> wrote in message
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> "Qu0ll" <> wrote in message
> news:%...
>
>> OK thanks Richard, I'll give it a go and report back in a day or so.
>
> Sadly, it didn't work - the C: drive restore point has been blown away
> already.
>
> How can I get restore points created on the C: drive to persist?
>
> --
> And loving it,
>
> -Q
> _________________________________________________
>
> (Replace the "SixFour" with numbers to email me)

"Richard Urban" <> wrote in message
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> Are you dual booting with Windows XP?

No, Vista is the only OS on the machine.

> Are you doing a boot time defrag with PerfectDisk?

No, I am not.

It must be something else - any other ideas? It is a serious situation to
not be able to use System Restore.

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And loving it,

-Q
_________________________________________________

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I have the same problem you have. I have my system set up with a boot
manager that eliminates the problem of erasing the restore points when dual
booting. But even when I don't boot into the other OS (which I seldom do),
my restore points disappear after a few days to a week. I also get no
automatic restore points created at the beginning of a day/boot. When I
first installed Vista, I think I had restore points that were over a week
old. My drive is 1/3 empty and has over 15GB free, so I don't think it would
be throwing them out for space reasons.

I've seen other posts about this problem and wonder if MS is investigating.
I use the MS disk cleanup, but do not request that my restore points be
removed...only the temp files, trash, etc.

"Qu0ll" wrote:

> Vista Ultimate x64
> C: 50GB
> D: 280GB
>
> I have configured System Protection to protect drives C: and D: but the
> restore points on drive C: go missing after a day or so. The restore points
> on drive D: are being retained.
>
> I have tried creating manual restore points and it creates them without any
> problems - other than that they disappear some hours later. It does create
> daily restore points but they too are vanishing after a while.
>
> There is over 15GB of free space on drive C: and in all other respects the
> system is working perfectly.
>
> Any suggestions as to how to get the restore points to be retained?
>
> --
> And loving it,
>
> -Q
> _________________________________________________
>
> (Replace the "SixFour" with numbers to email me)
>
>

Dual Booting Vista and XP by any chance ???

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"Jo" <> wrote in message news:7B237653-170F-4CA9-A5A6-...
>I have the same problem you have. I have my system set up with a boot
> manager that eliminates the problem of erasing the restore points when dual
> booting. But even when I don't boot into the other OS (which I seldom do),
> my restore points disappear after a few days to a week. I also get no
> automatic restore points created at the beginning of a day/boot. When I
> first installed Vista, I think I had restore points that were over a week
> old. My drive is 1/3 empty and has over 15GB free, so I don't think it would
> be throwing them out for space reasons.
>
> I've seen other posts about this problem and wonder if MS is investigating.
> I use the MS disk cleanup, but do not request that my restore points be
> removed...only the temp files, trash, etc.
>
> "Qu0ll" wrote:
>
>> Vista Ultimate x64
>> C: 50GB
>> D: 280GB
>>
>> I have configured System Protection to protect drives C: and D: but the
>> restore points on drive C: go missing after a day or so. The restore points
>> on drive D: are being retained.
>>
>> I have tried creating manual restore points and it creates them without any
>> problems - other than that they disappear some hours later. It does create
>> daily restore points but they too are vanishing after a while.
>>
>> There is over 15GB of free space on drive C: and in all other respects the
>> system is working perfectly.
>>
>> Any suggestions as to how to get the restore points to be retained?
>>
>> --
>> And loving it,
>>
>> -Q
>> _________________________________________________
>>
>> (Replace the "SixFour" with numbers to email me)
>>
>>