Restore fails to restore...

[Ewen]

I had an occasion to install a small device which was of no subsequent use to me and I opted to 'Restore" to the day before. Having gone through the motions the Restore programme advised me that 'No Changes Had Been Made etc. and to choose another point. I did this four times with the same result. The Restore window that comes with this message is headed 'Restore Incomplete'.

What could be causing this? Any advice will be welcome.

 

[Hipster Doofus]

This will get system restore working again but won't help in restoring to a previous point.
Go to my computer\properties\system restore & turn it off. Reboot. This will delete all restore points. Turn system restore back on. It will create a restore point so be patient. From there it should work OK.

 

[Ewen]

Thanks for that Hipster Doofus I'm going to give it a try. However had I done a search first (as I have just done) I would have found an earlier post which refers to Q283096 and I'll check that out too.

(Struth a 4 minute delay in the reply... beat that for service)

Regards.

 

[damnyank]

I may be too late - but try this link for info:

Click here

 

[Ewen]

I have tried Hipster Doofus' suggestion and all would seem to be well. I have not tried a retsore yet but I'm sure it will work. In actual fact I installed a small programme and when I ran it the whole system just died on me (black screen and all). This is the first time ever that I have had a problem with XP. But damnyank I thank you for your response and the link certainly provides a tremendous amount of information regarding Restore.

Regards...