jeffowen
Member
I have a Windows 7 64bit pro machine and am generally very pleased with it, however, on several occasions recently I have needed to use the restore function.
On each time I tried to go back, even by a day or so, the restore process went through the motions and then told me it had failed.
What's been happening is that I have lost the use of a process e.g. my old Canon scanner or similar device, and I have realized it often followed a Microsoft update, (which seem to be coming faster and more frequent than ever these days)!
Over the last year or so I tried to restore about six times and none have succeeded. In most cases I have been able (by the use of these forums) to resolve the problem by some other means but it begs the question "What's the point of a restore function if it never works?" How do I get it to work? It never let me down on my old XP machine.
On a final note of concern I found that I have been rapidly running out of hard drive memory and found it was caused by the System Volume Information files. Apparently these are the restore points. I discovered that the default volume of the disc space was set to 50% (of 1000GB). I have now set it to 10%. This was after the failures of the restore function.
On each time I tried to go back, even by a day or so, the restore process went through the motions and then told me it had failed.
What's been happening is that I have lost the use of a process e.g. my old Canon scanner or similar device, and I have realized it often followed a Microsoft update, (which seem to be coming faster and more frequent than ever these days)!
Over the last year or so I tried to restore about six times and none have succeeded. In most cases I have been able (by the use of these forums) to resolve the problem by some other means but it begs the question "What's the point of a restore function if it never works?" How do I get it to work? It never let me down on my old XP machine.
On a final note of concern I found that I have been rapidly running out of hard drive memory and found it was caused by the System Volume Information files. Apparently these are the restore points. I discovered that the default volume of the disc space was set to 50% (of 1000GB). I have now set it to 10%. This was after the failures of the restore function.
