I'm unable to create a restore point in XP Pro sp3.

I thought that being that there are 2 separate partitions, both OSs would see the drive as 2 separate drives and therefore not cross over from one half to the other. Am I wrong? Also, what is a RAW drive and could this be why I'm having this problem?

 

When I go into disk management to view the partitions, it says that both are NTFS.

DRV1_VOL1 C:
112.71 GB NTFS
Healthy (System)

and for drive D: which is the boot drive it states:

D:
353.04 GB NTFS
Healthy (Boot).

 

That is ashame if that is the case. I bought the drive new back in February.

 

Have you recently "wiped" your drive lately? I did this once and when it showed 100% done, a warning popped up that I was running low on disc space. Afterwards, I saw a huge gain in disc space (91% free), but my restore points were wiped out when I knew previously that I had about two months of restore points. I don't know if this is your problem, but it happened to me. Also, what is the point of running two XP's? I have XP Pro, but don't need two of them.

 

Is this what you mean by wiping the drive?
http://www.cnet.com.au/diy-wipe-your-hard-drive-clean-240053924.htm

 

No, nothing not that advanced. I mean the "wipe free space" function in programs such as CCleaner. This will erase your restore points. That's what I was talking about. The program you showed me, you use to do a fresh install or if you trade in or donate your system. There are many freeware programs that have privacy features such as securely deleting temporary internet files, cookies,and so on. I just wondered if you used such a program, because I wiped out my own restore points with CCleaner. It can happen to anyone. I've learned to be careful in using these programs.

 

No, I re-installed Windows Restore as per directions from a few posts back but it didn't do any good. Read all of the posts in this thread from the beginning and you'll see all that I have done so far.

Matt

 

I ran the extended scan from Western Digital which took about 2 hours to complete and it passed with flying colors.

 

Yes, I performed all as you mentioned below.

"You might have some corrupt Windows files on your harddrive. Click Start< Run and type sfc /scannow and hit enter. Have your Windows XP CD handy in case SFC needs a file.

When that finishes click Start< Run and type cmd and hit enter. The command prompt window will open. Type chkdsk /r and hit enter. Check Disk will report that it can't run while Windows is running and will ask you if it can run on reboot. Type Y and hit enter. Reboot the pc for Check Disk to run.

If those 2 options don't get system restore working can you boot into Safe Mode and test to see if System Restore works there? "

I performed "sfc /scannow" before I performed "chkdsk /r" but it made no difference. You already know about the RAW issue with chkdsk. I had to reboot the computer in order for chkdsk to work. When it rebooted chkdsk was called autochk and said that the drive was a RAW drive and that autochk cannot scan a RAW drive.

 

I mentioned that I could create a restore point in XP Home back in post #19. I will try what you said above and I'll let you know what happens.
Thanks

 

As I type this on my laptop, my main computer is currently having it's hard drive scanned with chkdsk /r after following the previous post to me and it scanned pretty fast up until it got to 25% and then it slowed down to 1% every 7 seconds and slowed down even more once it got to around 40 something % complete at 1% every 1 to 2 minutes.

So the plus side is that chkdsk does work from the repair console on the cd-rom.


OK, after about 2 hours, it completed chkdsk and said that it found 1 or more errors and corrected them. I typed exit and the computer rebooted, I selected xp pro for my OS, the next thing it does is run chkdsk again and then gives the same message about the drive being RAW and that is doesn't scan RAW drives. So, I still have the problem there and now I have noticed my computer is hanging more often now. I have run virus scanners on it but turn up nothing. The only thing else that I know of to do is reinstall XP Pro over the existing OS.

Clueless

 

Do you suspect this machine is infected? Some virus will get into system restore to keep a copy of themselves. Maybe try something like malwarebytes or other free scanner and scan the machine.

 

I ended up backing up what I wanted to save and transferring some of it over to the other partition which was the C: drive and reinstalled windows along with all of the drivers that came with the board. I have now been able to create restore points with no trouble at all.

I would have liked to have been able to solve this problem so that any future problem like this that comes along again, we would know what to do in order to avoid ultimately having to format the drive, but it just seemed to be something that nobody has been able to find an answer to. I did find a lot of other people having the same problem as I but would end up doing the same thing by formatting or they would just not respond back on their thread to say what they did in the end.