Guest wetterfugal Posted March 23, 2003 Report Share Posted March 23, 2003 I have never had an automatic restore point created since I built this computer three months ago. Every time I look for one the only one available is for the current date and time. Next day this point is gone and the current date is back. I have one 60GB HD with four partitions 14GB, 15MB [a mistake], 14 GB and 16 GB all but the 14 MB partition have sufficient space to suit the restore requirements. I have disabled restore on the 15MB part'n which has insufficent room to no effect. I have read Microsoft’s article on disk space required to restore an I think that the 15MB is causing the problem even though the restore has been disabled. I really would like someone to confirm that because of the 15MB partition there will be no restore points created and all partitions would be effected and that Removing the small partition is a requirement. There is 9GB, 10GB and 21GB of free space is available on the other patitions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted March 23, 2003 Report Share Posted March 23, 2003 what space on each drive are you allowing windows for the creation of restore points, default is 5% has it been altered ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wetterfugal Posted March 23, 2003 Report Share Posted March 23, 2003 I have not stipulated any space so I assume that it is the default. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted March 23, 2003 Report Share Posted March 23, 2003 Have you tried disabling sysrestore then reenabling it to see if that has any effect? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wetterfugal Posted March 23, 2003 Report Share Posted March 23, 2003 301224 MS Knowledge Base Article http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;EN-US;301224MORE INFORMATIONSystem Restore uses the FIFO process on restore points consistently across drives and always purges full restore points. System Restore keeps restore point information on all drives. So when one drive causes System Restore to use the FIFO process on restore points because of low disk space, the restore point information is purged on all drives. For additional information please see the following Microsoft Knowledge Base articles: 299904 System Restore Suspended on System Drive Although Enough Disk Space 300044 System Restore and Hard Disk Space Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wetterfugal Posted March 23, 2003 Report Share Posted March 23, 2003 I have disabled restore on the 15MB part'n which has insufficent room to no effect.The above MS article seems to be telling me something but I can't understand it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wetterfugal Posted March 23, 2003 Report Share Posted March 23, 2003 Gottago! Visitor back in about 30mins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted March 23, 2003 Report Share Posted March 23, 2003 How did you create the partitions? Is it possible to hide the 15mb partition ? so windows no longer sees it ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wetterfugal Posted March 23, 2003 Report Share Posted March 23, 2003 Bakkagin I used FDISK and got the decimal wrong hence 15MB instead of 15GB. would think that deleting the partition would be the answer and I posted the question on PCAnswers forum but no one seemed to know. I thought I should give this forum a try. I still think that the knowledge base is trying to tell me that if you have a partition with insufficient space none of the restore points will work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted March 23, 2003 Report Share Posted March 23, 2003 A drive that is not a system drive that has System Restore enabled on it has reached less than 50 MB of free disk space.A copy, delete, modify operation was made to a file that is monitored by System Restore on such drive. This will cause System Restore to suspend across the systemI think this is what you are referring to, but do not really see how you would have a monitored sys file on there.Have you tried running repair from the cd? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest wetterfugal Posted March 23, 2003 Report Share Posted March 23, 2003 Not sure what you mean, All partitiond were shown as being monitored, I have had no warnings of insufficient drive space, I did disable drive E: (15MB) There has never been a restore point created that was not deleted and replaced by a RS point of the current date.I have now deleted the 15MB logical partition and am going to reboot and see it my problem is solved. The 15MB was getting on my nerves anyway, a constant reminder of my lack of attention to what I was dooing. Thanks for your help, I'll get back if things are not well, Regards, Vic A. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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