System Restore points not loading

[Chuckamundo]

Hi. Having issues with any of my restore points in Win7 restoring my system. I think I have a lead on what's happened which may be a bigger problem. I have Win 2000 Pro SP4 on my 80 Gig HD (drive C:\ initially, works fine and my first OS. Decided (finally) to install Win7 Home Premium x64 on my 250 Gig HD. Installed, booted into Win7 (hurray!), all hardware recognized, and then did a re-boot (suprize!) and found "Boot menu" with "load previous version of windows" and "load Win 7". So have used "both" Os's back and forth, no real problems till I tried to restore Win 7 to a earlier point & froze pc, reboot, tried again, froze, reboot & did a system restore from recovery menu, and got error message "System restore could not open file *** (sorry, can't remember file name but it is a FireFox setting file on my drive C:\ ), system restore failed. Now, Win 2000 "see's" Win 7 on the 250 Gig drive D:\ in explorer BUT Win 7 does not see the Win 2000 on the drive C:\ . I am thinking of doing a Win 7 fresh re-install and do a/the boot menu repair tutorial I found here. Will this affect Win 2000 in any way and b) will the boot menu repair keep Win 7 off the Win 2000 drive when the boot menu is fixed / corrected?

 

[andrew129260]

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/57746-system-restore-general-troubleshooting-fix-issues.html

 

[gregrocker]

We had problems with XP Dual Boots interfering with Restore Points earlier on, so I can only imagine what Win2000 can do.

Let us see a Win7 Disk Mgmt drive map and listings snip to see if anything is obvious. Did Win7 configure the Dual Boot or did you add it manually or with EasyBCD?

 

[Chuckamundo]

Let us see a Win7 Disk Mgmt drive map and listings snip

Ok, sorry newbie here. How do I do that for you?

 

[Chuckamundo]

Win 7 set up the dual boot, Win 2000 was first / original.

 

[Chuckamundo]

"Let us see a Windows 7 Disk Mgmt drive map and listings snip" got it, found your tutorial page/url on Disk Management, How to post/upload attachment/pic, and working on it...

 

[silhouttejames]

System Restore may work wonders and save your behind in those cases. If however you find system restore not working, there might be a number of things to check before you reinstall Windows. If you’re sure System Restore is turned on, but it’s still not working properly, try the following.
3 Things To Check When Your System Restore Is Not Working [Windows]

 

[gregrocker]

Type Snipping Tool in Start search box, make a rectangular snip of entire Disk Mgmt window which you maximize first. Then Save and attach with paper clip in reply box.

 

[Chuckamundo]

Here's the DM window. Note no drive letter for the 80 Gig drive. I have read the "how to add / change drive letters in Win7" tutorial here BUT I would like to know "IF" I designate / change a drive letter to this drive (this is my Win2000 OS drive) if it will screw up / DOH! / Damn-it!!! Win2000 from working?

 

[gregrocker]

Read the instructions again. Need the drivemap.

Also can you get a Win2000 screenshot by pasting Prnt Scrn to Paint?

Since the issue is present with no drive letter for the other OS in Win7, it might be solved removing 7's drive letter in 2000.

 

[Chuckamundo]

Here's what Win7 "see's" & what Win2000 "see's"...

Hhmmm, that's wierd, 9 Meg unallocated in the 80 Gig Win7 DM.

WARNING: I am not willing to change / alter / reset / rename / C:\format the drive(s) in Win2000 IF at all possible to correct / fix Win7 unless it / this will work & "Problem Solved". I'me not one to "solve a problem and create another", it hurts my forehead too much after the slap.

 

[gregrocker]

I understand why you wouldn't want to experiment if you are otherwise happy with your legacy Dual Boot.

What sometimes works with XP is moving the System boot files which have been placed on the older OS partition as signified by the System flag, to Win7 partition. This is done by marking Win7 partition Active then running Startup Repair from the disk up to 3 separate times. Then when it starts up to Win7 install EasyBCD to add the legacy OS on its Add Boot Entry tab.

However we simply don't have enough experience with Win2000 to vouch whether this would work, so it would indeed need to be experimental with an image of Win2000 backed up first. EasyBCD does support 2000 so maybe you could interact with their forums to find out if adding Win2000 from the more advanced Win7 (instead of reverse) might solve your issue. EasyBCD - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Chuckamundo]

Sir, I bow to your experience and expertise!
<- Chuckamundo takes a bow to gregrocker
Yes, i am very happy and impressed with Win2000, I have taken it around the block a few times and NO BSOD, it has told me on occasion to "Bite Me!" when I have tried a few things, but you can tweak it if you're nice about it.
Now I wonder IF I run EasyBCD and correct the missing Win2000 entry in my boot menu and add a drive letter to the Disk 0 in Win7 if that may sort out the System Restore failed in 7?
"done by marking Windows 7 partition Active then running Startup Repair from the disk" um, uh, well, how do I do this Sir?
I'll definitely check the Easy forums & Wikipedia (never thought of that 1)!

 

[gregrocker]

It couldn't hurt to give XP a drive letter in Win7 to see if it resolves the System Restore problem first.

You can always remove it if it causes any problems. But I would want to see my files from both OS's.