Recovery partition created - suitable restore points now unavailable

Hello Everyone - it's been a while since I posted here, so I apologize for any errors I may make. I have a Dell Inspiron Core I5 Windows 7 SP1 PC with Norton internet security. My question is: what are the rules that govern when the system will make automatic restore points. I've read...

Hello, I have done a good bit of searching around the internet about system protection monitoring on recovery partitions. It seems that by default system protection was turned on for the recovery partition of my laptop and many restore points have been saved to the recovery partition. I only...

1. Computer: Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64 bit, 298 GB HD I used this laptop to get access to internet to repair my home computer (Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64 bit). First I messed permissions on home computer and then also on this laptop. Windows installer didn't work on any of them. I managed to...

Having turned on my Windows 7 Ultimate x64 I found my user accounts to be missing and was left with an Administrator account. It seems that the system has reverted to a very old restore point. I have tried using the restore points (recent ones are displayed, but I get the 0x80070057 error). My data...