Hi Diane,

Are you by chance including (monitoring)  your factory restore- or backup 
partition?
Go into System Restore settings and check what is being monitored.
If this partition is being monitored (which it shouldn't be) you may 
experience these type of errors.
Also check % settings. Max is 12% which can amount to a very large chunk on 
today's larger drives.
No need to reserve or use that much space. Things should work fine at about 
5 -6 %.

So ,turn OFF System Restore monitoring on all drives/partitions- you will 
lose any Restore Points,
but that's somewhat immaterial since you can't use it anyway.
Then enable monitoring (enable protection) on C:\   only, unless you have 
other partitions you want to monitor,
but then ,depending on the size and free space on these partitions, you may 
experience the warning again.
System Restore is valuable for a system drive, to restore system related 
drivers ,data etc ,but is neither designed nor is it desirable to restore 
personal data. So it won't restore deleted media files,email or pictures etc
All those should be properly backed up to an outside storage medium.
Restoring personal data may look like a good thing ,but in reality would 
create havoc by restoring previously deleted files
and deleting previously (recently) created files.

Hope this puts some perspective on it.

Peter E.

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From: "Katz"
Sent: Monday, 16 May, 2011 11:37 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Can't Set System Restore Points

*I have the same problem, only it says there isn't enough room.  I have 284
GB of free space.  That sure sounds like enough.

Diane
*
 

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