The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Strange behavior of XP system restoration

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Tobi1982, Nov 1, 2007.

  1. Tobi1982

    Tobi1982 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    12
    Messages:
    213
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Hi,

    I always thought i know pretty much about computers and Windows, but sometimes things happen, that even amaze me...

    Today, I was wondering about I had about 2-3GB more free diskspace than I supposed to have. As the System Restoration is the most common process to use disk space without the user doing anything, I had a look at my restore points and noticed that there's only one restore point from yesterday :confused: I give the sytem restoration 3GB of disk space and normally, I've restore points back to 2 weeks ago or something like that.

    I checked the event log and found an error message from yesterday which says that the system restore service was halted as there wasn't enough disk space. But I have about 30GB free on my "C"-Drive. Only D has only 2GB free, but this drive isn't monitored by the system restoration.

    I only could imagine that the system restore ran out of its 3GB-limit. But is it supposed to delete all restore points then? I always thought, it should just delete the oldest ones then?

    Does anyone have an idea what could have gone wrong here? Pretty odd if I need a restore point one time and my Windows just decided to delete them all 1 day ago...

    Thanks for answers!

    Tobi
     
    Tobi1982, Nov 1, 2007
    #1