System restore points missing

[Qboffin]

I would like to do a system restore, but when I try to do so (system protection/system restore), it tells me that "no restore points have been created on your hard drive".

2 weeks ago I successfully did a system restore, and I have not changed any settings since then. My recovery partition is still in place, the disk manager says the recovery drive has 8 GB out of 15 GB free. Could the restore point be in my recovery partition, but for some reason Windows isn't seeing it? How would I view the recovery partition to check?

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Go to a command prompt and enter this:

vssadmin list shadowstorage

What are the results of that command?

 

[Qboffin]

Thank you ignatzatsonic. The result is "No items found that satisfy the query."

 

[ignatzatsonic]

I'm not an authority, but that would indicate you have no restore points.

Don't know why.

I use it once or twice a month and it works for me at least 95% of the time.

There are threads on this forum about it failing to work properly, but I have not paid a lot of attention to them as it works OK for me. Drill down with the search tool and/or wait for more comments.

Have you recently used any disk tools on your drive---such as defragmenting, changing partitions, etc? Or made any system changes you can recall?

Can you manually make a restore point right now and confirm it with that vssadmin command?

 

[bigmck]

Thank you ignatzatsonic. The result is "No items found that satisfy the query."

Check this tutorial and see if you have the System Restore turned on.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/81500-system-restore-enable-disable.html