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meetdilip

hi,

Is there any method to disable Restore points in XP SP 2. My hard disk has got bad sector and I cannot use restore points. My system is showing low disk space on C drive. I had to delete the RPs from System volume information manually. Please let me know if I can disable restore points.

18lama

I don;t know about individual points but you should disable system restore all together if disk space is becoming an issue.

meetdilip

That is exactly what I meant. I have no use of restore points.

itsmemad

IMPORTANT: If the System Restore feature is disabled, all existing restore points will be deleted. The computer will not be able to track or undo changes to the computer.


1. Click the Start button, and then click Control Panel.

2. In the Control Panel window, under Pick a category, double-click the Performance and Maintenance icon.

3. In the Performance and Maintenance window, under or pick a Control Panel icon , double-click the System icon.

4.In the System Properties window, click the System Restore tab.

5. In the System Properties window, on the System Restore tab, click to select the Turn off System Restore on all drives box.

6. In the System Properties window, click OK button.

7.In the System Restore window, click the Yes button.

NOTE: To delete all restore points without permanently turning off this feature, follow the procedure, then return to the System Properties window and click to clear the Turn off System Restore on all drives box.

P.S. - Operating System - Windows XP.

meetdilip

Thanks Maddy.

puchu

In addition if you want to specify how much size is used for Sys restore ,

click on individual drives inside the window
and
click settings.

There you can change the slider position to specify the size.

meetdilip

Thanks

Archer

Do you have another backup solution/software to replace System Restore ?

meetdilip

No.

I use DVDs as back up. System restore is useless for me due to bad sector in my disc. Whenever I try a system restore, it ends up in a system restart.

newprouser

how were you able to confirm that its because of bad sector ?

meetdilip

Tune Up Disk Doctor.

It can be wrong. Just it seems to be the most valid explanation.

newprouser

True, thats a very good explanation for things going wrong.

infact i face a similar experience. only in one partition, when some programs are installed , the system restarts. So i also thought its bad sector problem.

then i ran another program which creates a dummy file (simply some file with random data). it was able to cover entire free space with a dummy file with no problem. then i copied it to another partition. that also worked just fine.

Now i'm at a loss to understand what the problem is.

Morover new HDD's are usually designed to replace bad sectors with good sectors, upto a limit. If thats the case, it should possibly show in any utility monitoring SMART data as "reallocated sector count" or some different name.