All System Restore Points Vanished

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AndyTampa

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I've been having trouble with a personal cloud device and the symptoms keep changing. Yesterday, I did a system restore to a few days ago to see if that would alleviate the problem. One of the symptoms was BSODs. It didn't help. Today, after a couple more BSODs, I went to restore to an earlier time and found that every single restore point is missing including the one from this morning.

I've checked my backups, but for some reason, they aren't backing up System Volume Information. Why would my restore points vanish and can I get them back?

EDIT: I've found some errors in the Event Viewer:

volmgr; Event ID 49; Configuring the Page file for crash dump failed. Make sure there is a page file on the boot partition and that is large enough to contain all physical memory.

Eventlog; Event ID 6008; The previous system shutdown at 7:21:43 AM on 6/26/2015 was unexpected.

Service Control Manager Eventlog Provider; Event ID 7026; The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load:
i8042prt

volsnap: Event ID 20; The shadow copies of volume C: were aborted because of a failed free space computation.
 
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My Computer

System One

  • Operating System
    Windows Vista Home Premium SP2, 32-bit
    Manufacturer/Model
    Retrofitted Refurbished Gateway
    CPU
    AMD
    Motherboard
    ASUS M3A78-EM
    Memory
    4 GB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer 22-in Flat Screen Monitor
    Mouse
    Logitech M705 Wireless Mouse
    Keyboard
    Logitech K350 Wireless Keyboard
In posting to another thread, I thought to check my ShadowStorage. Last week my hard drive filled completely because ShadowStorage was set to UNBOUNDED. I changed the max size to 100GB. Sometime between then and now, it changed itself back to UNBOUNDED. Is there a log or something that keeps track of these changes? How could it change itself?
 

My Computer

System One

  • Operating System
    Windows Vista Home Premium SP2, 32-bit
    Manufacturer/Model
    Retrofitted Refurbished Gateway
    CPU
    AMD
    Motherboard
    ASUS M3A78-EM
    Memory
    4 GB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer 22-in Flat Screen Monitor
    Mouse
    Logitech M705 Wireless Mouse
    Keyboard
    Logitech K350 Wireless Keyboard
Nobody?
 

My Computer

System One

  • Operating System
    Windows Vista Home Premium SP2, 32-bit
    Manufacturer/Model
    Retrofitted Refurbished Gateway
    CPU
    AMD
    Motherboard
    ASUS M3A78-EM
    Memory
    4 GB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer 22-in Flat Screen Monitor
    Mouse
    Logitech M705 Wireless Mouse
    Keyboard
    Logitech K350 Wireless Keyboard
Regarding shadow storage size...maybe it reverted because of the system restore you performed? Just a wag...
Regarding the lost Restore Points...can't help you, but at least you found out your backups don't include the System Volume Information, good info for the future, unfortunately like finding out your insurance policy doesn't cover the loss you just incurred.:mad:
 

My Computer

System One

Regarding lost restore points...
Do you happen to be running a dual-boot system with Windows XP?
If XP is set to monitor both volumes/drives/partitions, and you boot into XP, it wipes out all restore points created by Vista. When you return to Vista, new restore points are created as usual, but the previous ones are gone.
This is because XP doesn't recognize the format of the Vista restore points, assumes they're corrupt, and deletes them.
 

My Computer

System One

virtual6 said:
Regarding shadow storage size...maybe it reverted because of the system restore you performed? Just a wag...
Regarding the lost Restore Points...can't help you, but at least you found out your backups don't include the System Volume Information, good info for the future, unfortunately like finding out your insurance policy doesn't cover the loss you just incurred.:mad:
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The system restore was performed before I changed the ShadowStorage. I don't recall doing one after I changed the storage size. In answer to the follow-up question, no, I don't run dual boot.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Operating System
    Windows Vista Home Premium SP2, 32-bit
    Manufacturer/Model
    Retrofitted Refurbished Gateway
    CPU
    AMD
    Motherboard
    ASUS M3A78-EM
    Memory
    4 GB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer 22-in Flat Screen Monitor
    Mouse
    Logitech M705 Wireless Mouse
    Keyboard
    Logitech K350 Wireless Keyboard
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