Windows 7: System Restore only shows limited restore points

pragnesh89 · 14 Nov 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by MilesAhead

Are you booting more than on OS by any chance? If you boot XP and it can see Vista or Windows 7 partition it will think those restore points are corrupted and delete them. The format has changed a bit so it doesn't recognize them as valid.

If that's the case, this may help:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/12...delete-14.html

I am running Windows 7 and Windows XP on two different external hard drives. They both are independent. I set up the dualboot using EasyBCD where I can choose which OS to start.

MilesAhead · 14 Nov 2011

Try an experiment. Make a couple of restore points in Windows7. Boot XP. Boot back into Windows7. See if they have disappeared.

Hopalong X · 14 Nov 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by pragnesh89

I got that option after I ran sfc/scannow yesterday and I was able to see more restore points if you notice from my earlier snips from this thread. I just ran SFC/scannow again and it showed that windows did not find any integration , etc.

Ooops! Sorry I missed that it was checked.

pragnesh89 · 14 Nov 2011

Quote: Originally Posted by MilesAhead

Try an experiment. Make a couple of restore points in Windows7. Boot XP. Boot back into Windows7. See if they have disappeared.

You were right. The restore points seems to have been deleted after I logged into XP and then back into Windows 7.

MilesAhead · 14 Nov 2011

I have XP and Windows 7 on partitions of the same disk. Brink put me onto the solution as shown in his tutorial. I prefer to be able to access files from each partition while booted to the other. I just put up with it. When I boot back into Windows7 I make a restore point right away. Plus I have backup images if something should happen in the interim.

Windows 7: System Restore only shows limited restore points

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