System Restore Is Not Able to Create a Restore Point

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I'm using Windows XP Pro Home Edition (Service Pack 2) on an HP Pavillion
a250y desktop. I have noticed recently that there are no system restore
points on my computer. A check of the Event Viewer seems to indicate that
my computer has unsuccessfully tried to create five system restore points in
the past four days. If I right-click on any of the unsuccessful system
restore attempts listed to view the error properties and then click on the
hyperlink associated with the error properties, I get a message indicating
that System Restore will automatically restart if I manually create a
restore point. However, when I try to do this, I get the message contained
in the subject line. Does anyone know of a way to fix this problem? Thanks
for any suggestions.

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Hi Chris,

Look to see if any of the Source and EventID's in Event Viewer match
the errors in this article.
You Cannot Create a Restore Point with a HighPoint Driver Installed
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=322246

More information.
System Restore fails to create an automatic restore point
http://home.earthlink.net/~mvp_bert/html/srauto.html

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Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/


Chris Sherlock wrote:
> I'm using Windows XP Pro Home Edition (Service Pack 2) on
> an HP Pavillion a250y desktop. I have noticed recently
> that there are no system restore points on my computer. A check of
> the Event Viewer seems to indicate that my
> computer has unsuccessfully tried to create five system
> restore points in the past four days. If I right-click
> on any of the unsuccessful system restore attempts listed
> to view the error properties and then click on the
> hyperlink associated with the error properties, I get a
> message indicating that System Restore will automatically
> restart if I manually create a restore point. However,
> when I try to do this, I get the message contained in the
> subject line. Does anyone know of a way to fix this
> problem? Thanks for any suggestions.