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[Forever]

I am running Windows 7 Ultimate..

I create a System Restore point, however after I turn my computer off and turn it back on - it states that I have NO restore points.

My system restore for C: drive is always on, I have allowed it 5% (1.96GB) for system restore points

BUT for some reason (even if I manually create a system restore point) once the computer has been restarted - it always shows NO system restore points.


What is the problem and how to fix it?

[eamo]

I'm guessing it needs a lot more than 1.5GB.......try somewhere around 10GB.

[Forever]

Thats not the problem.

10GB would be 25% of my entire C: drive (windows system drive)


(My computer is partitioned so C:drive is only 40GB,

then I have E: drive 160GB, F: drive 160GB and G: drive 160GB)

However C: drive should be smaller at around 40GB so the computer runs faster - only windows stuff is stored in C: drive (and "System restore" is Windows stuff)

[kprrok]

You don't put the system restore on the same drive as the OS. You should put it on a different physical drive. If you only have 1 drive, at least on a different partition.

[Forever]

how do I save what drive the system restore is saved onto (I am not talking about System/Windows back-up) I am talking about System Restore.

There seems to be no option for saving "System Restore points" to a different drive - it is just automatically C: drive

[eamo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_restore

I might be wrong but I still suspect System Restore needs a lot more than 1.5GB..........this from the wiki article...

If there is no adequate free space, System Restore will fail to create a restore points. In this case, the user may discover that there is not a single restore point available with which to restore the system.

A 40GB C: drive might have been enough back in the days of XP....but W7 Ultimate is a huge OS and System Restore is basically a 'shadow copy'.

I personally use 150GB for my W7 partition. That's still a small enough partition to run at the max speed for the HDD.

[languistic]

[eamo]

[Forever]

I have given the system restore 5GB.

It still has the same problem - I make a system restore point (created)

The restore point is there.

After my computer has been turned off and on again later - there are NO system restore points.

anyone found a solution?

It seems a lot of people have the same problem -

http://www.computing.net/answers/windows-7/system-restore-problems-windows-7-ultimate-/523.html

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7repair/thread/6eb3551b-58d0-46de-83ab-214a0022716b

[eamo]

My W7 Ultimate installation shows up as 20GB on my C: drive......but I think the actual OS files are about 11GB......that would suggest that around 9GB of space is used for restore points.