Restore points disappeared

I'm posting this because I can't believe what happened happened.

Several days ago there were 2 restore points.

In the process of creating a new restore point the screen not only didn't show those points but was set to off for the system drive. No way I did this either awake or sleep walking.

I turned same back on and created a restore point.

I'm wondering if in conjunction with my post Insert USB flash drive--machine intermittent sys error? if these conditions are indicative of the OS becoming unstable.

Mark

I've created images since the first release of Ghost. Last year I got so fed up with Acronis seemingly doing what it wanted to on various backup scenarios and a (my) history of periodically not being able to restore a recently validated image or the initial image of a sequence saying it couldn't find the original and the program getting more confusing and unintuitive by the year that I uninstalled same from both our machines.

I've just read a bunch of recent positive posts regarding macrium reflect and have downloaded the program.

Thanks,

Mark

While I agree that it's best not to rely upon System Restore points too much, and instead backup regularly to image files, that your RPs are flaky indicates a problem of some sort to me that IMO you should take seriously and try to find/fix.

Maybe related to your USB woes; I would first make sure to chkdsk all drives, also do a sfc /scannow, then try Uwe Sieber's DriveCleanup to see if maybe there's something funky there. Open a command prompt and type

drivecleanup -t

to test and see what it wants to do. Then just drivecleanup and off it goes. I have never suffered any ill effects from using this tool but YMMV. It basic cleans-out any old information about external drives, "old' meaning any external drive that is not currently connected to the computer and appearing in Windows.

Okay, I'll bite, how do you run drivecleanup? I stuck the exe on her desktop, command prompt (right click run as admin), default location=C:\Users\Connie, cd desktop, typed drivecleanup -t and got unrecognized etc?

I edited my USB/flash drive post. When you do so, does the board send email notices as if the post were new?

I had run chkdsk just on C since I'm looking at the system. I just ran it on the second drive E and external D--no problems.

I ran scannow /f on C. No problems.

markg2 said:

Okay, I'll bite, how do you run drivecleanup? I stuck the exe on her desktop, command prompt (right click run as admin), default location=C:\Users\Connie, cd desktop, typed drivecleanup -t and got unrecognized etc?

Should have worked. Whereever you have placed DriveCleanup.exe, "Shift-Right-Click-Open command window here" then execute as you've apparently done.

Maybe you downloaded the 32-bit version and need the 64-bit? From the readme: "Under x64 editions of Windows only the x64 version works."