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Windows Forum / Windows Me / System Tools / February 2006System Restore Question
Last evening I began to try to remove some remnants of Microsoft Works 6 so that I could install Works 7.0. I cut a Manual Restore point prior to starting in case things fell apart. You guessed it, things did come unglued (I have since accomplished the removal/install). At this point I tried to do a Restore to the Manual Restore point and got the famous message "Restore was unsuccessful...no changes have been made". There were also four System Checkpoints available, two each for the previous two days. When I tried those I got the same message "Restore was unsuccessful...no changes have been made". Then I got serious and pulled out my Mike M System Restore file. I checked the version of the smgr.dll in the windows\system folder and it showed the correct version v4.90.0.3003. Although my problem didn't appear to be related I then checked to make sure I didn't have a wininit.ini file. After these checks I did the test of System Restore by 1) creating shortcut to desktop 2) cutting manual restore point 3) deleting shortcut off desktop 4) doing a System Restore The shortcut was restored to the desktop and I did not get any errors. I again tried to do a Restore to the Manual Restore point that I cut prior to the removal/install attempt but still got the message "Restore was unsuccessful...no changes have been made". Now after all these words my question is why might the other Restore attempts fail although the "test of System Restore" worked properly? Thank you. Job says, "A restore a day should keep the doctor away." The short answer is probably that the control files somehow got corrupted - possibly either by manual editing of the content, or by an AV scan that attempted to remove something it shouldn't, or by a disk error Check your AV and see if it's tried doing anything in the _Restore archive. Did you run any other malware scanners? did you do anything to any of the contained files? - disk you run a Scandisk? - what was the scandisk.log result?  SignatureNoel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's > Last evening I began to try to remove some remnants of > Microsoft Works 6 so that I could install Works 7.0. I cut [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > > Job says, "A restore a day should keep the doctor away." Hi Noel, I appreciate your response. Answers to your questions--I had not run Scan Disk nor malware scanners nor virus scan. I did do some registry cleaning (I know, dangerous) in trying to purge Works 6.0 but I reviewed the log of deleted items and did not see anything obviously related to Restore. Although I guess that could have corrupted something. Anyhow, a subsequent System Checkpoint was created and I was able to restore to it successfully so I'm in high cotton again. It's ironic that prior to starting my removal/install activity I had cut a Manual Checkpoint so that I would have a recovery if I screwed anything up. I think that in the future I will build a Ghost Image before I start an activity that may get hairy. Cheers and thanks for your help. Job says, "I live by the carpenter's rule: cut to fit, beat into place." > The short answer is probably that the control files somehow got corrupted - > possibly either by manual editing of the content, or by an AV scan that [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] > > > > Job says, "A restore a day should keep the doctor away." A simple registry clean should not reset System Restore (unless perhaps the cleaner predated Win ME/XP), as none of the data pertaining to SR is held in the registry, except for the startup item *Statemgr.exe - and you'd have had to re-enable that to get SR working again. SignatureNoel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's > Hi Noel, I appreciate your response. > [quoted text clipped - 89 lines] >> > >> > Job says, "A restore a day should keep the doctor away." |
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