Windows 7 Restore points disappeared!

[bertie11]

Having installed 7 Home Premium I have been adding programs and configuring them accordingly. I noticed that about 7 or 8 restore points had been created when I installed new video and sound drivers, amongst other events such as removing other programs.

I was about to create an Acronis True Image image and I decided to check the restore points, but the system told me that there were no points and none had been created. I had my Win 7 partition set at 5% (5.3gb) and I know there were a load of restore points there. I also had restore point problems with the Evaluation version of Win 7.
That is just daft! Where the heck have they gone and why.
I hope someone can throw some light on this.
THanks

 

[Joe S]

Is this a dual boot system and a new problem? I just noticed mine isn't working now I saw a site last night that said system restore doesn't work in windows 7 and vista when dual booting. I'll have to do some more research on this.
Joe

 

[bertie11]

Hi Joe. Yes, it was a dual boot system XP Pro and Windows 7.
If you follow the link below it tells you how to fix it.
It didn't work on one of my systems though.
Good luck.



System Restore Points - Stop XP Dual Boot Delete - Vista Forums

 

[Joe S]

I was looking last night I think the problem may exist in Vista and Windows 7 dual booting. I'm running Vista and Windows 7 and have the same problem with no restore points remaining in windows 7. I hadn't noticed this before and don't know about Vista I'll have to look when I get more time.
Joe

 

[Joe S]

I'm on Vista now and the Restore points are gone there too. They used to work in both. I suspect something in the Oct updates caused the change. I have occasional boot freezes in Windows 7 now that I can't find a cause for.
Joe

 

[bertie11]

Joe S

Did you follow thr link I gave you in my last post? It is all in there.
My system dual booted with XP and Windows 7. I'm not sure if there is a fix for vista and Windows 7 dual boot.
Maybe someone else here can help?

 

[Joe S]

I haven't had time to get into the link. My 84 year old Dad is in the hospital again. So I don't have that much free time right now.
Joe

 

[bertie11]

I'm sorry to hear that Joe. Hope he will be OK soon.

 

[Joe S]

Bertie
I made an insteresting discovery. I suspect the Oct updates caused these issues. Besides the vanishing restore points I've had periodic freezes at the start up splash after updating things. Since it didn't didn't work I shut off System Restore Sat and set size to 0. Yesterday before work Bit Defender updated and it automatically creates a restore point. When I booted up after work and this morning no hangups. I noticed Bit Defender updating did cause a hang up on next boot before I discovered the missing restore points. It's frustrating not knowing what caused it. I hadn't had any real issues before that just about 1 month ago.
Joe