Windows 7 System Restore Points are all gone

[jquick77]

I am running windows 7 64 bit home edition. System restore is not working. When I clicked on it, I had no restore points. When I create one manually, It says it created it, but then I close out and go back, and it is gone. Once today, it created one and kept it for an hour or so, but then it was gone. I have plenty of disc space, and have system restore turned on. I checked to see if the shadow copy boxes were checked in msconfig, and they were running. I unchecked them did a reboot, and rechecked them and rebooted, but that didn't work. I only have the one operating system, as I have read that is sometimes an issue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Joe S]

Are you dual booting by any chance? That is one cause of no restore points.
Joe

 

[jquick77]

No not dual booting. Just running windows 7

 

[jquick77]

The single click download gave me a restore point, but then I closed out, and went to look and see if it was still there, and it was gone.

 

[jquick77]

I am also finding that I cant use system backup. It fails, and when I look in events log, this is one of the many errors that are there.


Name: Application
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Backup
Date: 12/5/2009 9:54:44 PM
Event ID: 517
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords:
User: SYSTEM
Computer: Jeff-PC
Description:
The backup operation that started at '‎2009‎-‎12‎-‎06T02:54:44.908000000Z' has failed with following error code '2155347999' (Windows Backup cannot find the shared protection point.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once the issue is resolved.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="Link Removed due to 404 Error">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Backup" Guid="{1DB28F2E-8F80-4027-8C5A-A11F7F10F62D}" />
<EventID>517</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-12-06T02:54:44.940000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>3242</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="5160" ThreadID="5192" />
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>Jeff-PC</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="BackupTime">2009-12-06T02:54:44.908000000Z</Data>
<Data Name="ErrorCode">2155347999</Data>
<Data Name="ErrorMessage">%%2155347999</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>n I go to the

 

[Joe S]

Drew I ran into this in Oct and suspected the updates from MS. I was dual booting Vista and RC I assumed it had something to do with the dual boot. I never did find out what caused the change.
Joe

 

[jquick77]

Trying to backup to a external Hard drive, which is E. I have a little flag down in my task bar telling to run backup, and when I do it fails. I got an error when trying to run that script file on the fouth link. This is an HP computer with vista 32 bit, upgraded to windows 7 64 bit. I also couldn't run system restore when I had Vista. I was hoping doing the install of windows 7 would fix it, but it didin't .