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    Anyone losing Windows System Restore points?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by lfegerber, Jul 13, 2011.

  1. lfegerber

    lfegerber Notebook Guru

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    I have been having this issue where my system keeps deleting restore points by itself for no apparent reason. I have changed the restore partition size to a healthy amount, and have plenty of drive space, but it still deletes it.

    For instance, if I go to select my current available restore points, I only have two available (both from yesterday). Anything older that is gone, even if I select "show more restore points"
     
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    yumms Notebook Enthusiast

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    Do you defrag? There's an issue where the restore point will be deleted when defarging if the disk cluster size is less than 16k
     
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    lfegerber Notebook Guru

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    Thanks for the reply - well, I don't manually defrag, but possibly my system is automatically defragging? What do you mean by the disk cluster size is less than 16k? Is there a way for me to check that? Sorry for the silly question.
     
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    The default cluster size for NTFS is 4k, unless you changed it'll be 4K. But you can check it by going to:

    Start->All Programs->Accessories->System Tools. Components->Storage->Disk

    But of course the issue could be something different, and not the defrag problem.
     
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    lfegerber Notebook Guru

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    Okay - I haven't changed anything.

    Can anyone else try going to system restore and seeing if all their restore points are there? I'm worried that this is an indication that my HD is crapping out....which is pretty sad since I just got this dv6t-6100
     
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    Well on an older DV7-3079 I have approx. 20 restore points, basically June, July and then two created when I did System Images (March, December)
    You did check the option to Show Additional Restore Points--Right?
     
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    Yep - I did check show additional restore points. I googled it, and it seems a lot of windows 7 users have this issue. I'm curious if it's my config, my hardware, or my current install that's causing the issue.
     
    lfegerber, Jul 14, 2011
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