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System Restore - Suspended !!???

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by PeteC, 2003/05/09.

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  1. 2003/05/09
    PeteC

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    I was having problems with my floppy drive today - think it has died :( - and was looking for 'floppy seek at boot up' - can't remember if that is an option in XP and hit the System Restore tab in System Properties.

    I was amazed to find that System Restore was 'suspended' and I need to run Disk Clean and ensure that there was at least 200 Mb free on the drive.

    I have System Restore set for 504 Mb on the OS drive - turned off on all other drives and there is over 4 Gb of free space on the drive.

    Turned off System Restore - thus losing all past points and re-enabled - now OK.

    What is going on here :confused:

    Any info gratefully received.
     
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    Hi

    Not sure if this may help but did you recently install SP1 - if so Windows creates a Restore point for this ( this can be as big as 600Mb !)
    If you did not have enough space allocated to SR ( I have mine set at low but after running SP1 ) Maybe this ate all the space !

    I have just checked mine but it hasn't been suspended although I do have it set low as I didn't want it taking too much space from 'C'. I have it turned off on the other partitions.

    I really don't know how many restore points can be made before one is wiped. I THINK XP makes one even if you don't ???

    Not sure if I have set mine too low now :confused: I only tend to use it if I am making a change I am not sure about. I also use Ghost which made me think a low setting for SR was OK as it was really only to turn back as soon as I realised I had done something wrong:eek:
     
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    PeteC

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    Hi MiniB,

    Thanks for your thoughts on this - it's nothing to do with SP1 - I installed that when it came out several months ago and have used system restore recently and had almost a dozen restore points to choose from.

    With a limit on the HDD space for SR my guess is that the oldest restore point gets dumped when a new one is made and there is no more allocated space available.

    Just checked - C drive is still being monitored by SR. :)
     
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    :) :)

    At least you have sorted it out ;)
     
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    PeteC

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    Sorted - yes :) - explained - no :confused:

    Thanks for your interest - watch this space!
     
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    Newt,

    Thanks for the link - a bundle of info - will take some time to wade through!

    For the moment System Restore is still running :)
     
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