System Restore points disappear

I'm running Win XP Professional on a Dell Inspiron 8100. I just noticed that I have no system restore points except today's System Checkpoint. The system checkpoint that was created yesterday (I saw it there yesterday before I shut down the computer) has disappeared.

Although I've been using this computer for a month or so, and it creates system checkpoints almost every day, there are none except today's showing. They've all disappeared.

Does anyone know what's going on, or whether there's a setting I have to change?

 

Hello helpseeker and welcome to the Board,

Are you monitoring more than the OS partition? And if you are, what's the size of the non OS partition?


MS SR troubleshooter:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q301224

 

There's only 1 hard drive, but it shows up as 2: C has only Dell drivers, and D has everything else, including Program Files and WINDOWS.

C has 7.10 MB used, with 732 Kb free
D has 3.76 GB used, with 14.8 GB free

I'm monitoring both.

 

Hi helpseeker,

That's the problem - shut monitoring off for C - not enough room for SR and it's wiping the RP's for D as well.

The info for C is static, no need to monitor - back up to cd. As a general rule, only OS partitions should be monitored by system restore.

 

Thanks. I did what you recommended. So far so good. It saved yesterday's restore points. I'll keep watching, and may be back to the BBS if the problem recurs.

 

Glad that resolved the problem - thanks for the feedback