Running Windows 7 Home Premium on a laptop with 390 GB unused HD space.
I want to restore to an earlier date, but I get a message: "There is not enough free space to restore the disk" even if I try to restore it to two days ago.
What can I do?
cb
Hi, abredt.
Could you kindly attach a screenshot of Disk Management displaying all drives and partitions?
Thanks
This is usually a sign of a rootkit infection.
Kindly run this tool from Kaspersky
http://support.kaspersky.com/downloa...tdsskiller.exe
Perfect.
As there doesn't seem to be a problem showing in Disk Management, I would ask if you have noticed any other untoward/unwanted behaviour from the machine in question? (Basically: What has initiated the desire to restore the machine?)
If you feel that the machine is virus/malware free, try running chkdisk > option 1_6. Then defragment the drive. Try to restore the system again.
What (if any) active (runs in the background) antispyware/malware/virus protection is on the machine?
My desktop and this laptop stopped printing to some of my networked printers. Both are Windows 7 Home Premium. A few days later, the desktop gave me a "Your computer was not able to start" message and Startup Repair ran and said it failed. I was able to clear it all up by restoring the desktop to before a recent Windows Update. I ran Spybot Search and Destroy on the desktop and it was clean.
So, I wanted to restore the laptop to before the windows Update.
Both run McAfee Total Protection and are updated.
Twilight Zone.
I decided to try one more restore before doing the suggestions.
Voila, it worked. I restored it to 3 weeks ago and ran a McAfee full scan - no problems.
Thanks for your posts.
cb
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