Solved: Restoring computer

Hi- I've had some trouble restoring my computer to an earlier date. I tried 2 months and was denied. Then I tried 3 more times using August, and
Sept. (2008). I was still denied. Obviously my question is: what's up?
I'm using a 5 year old dell dimension 2350, 1.8 gh, pent 4, 512 ddrsd ram.
I've never had this problem before. I just put a new cd/dvd burner into
the tower. Thanks,

 

What are you trying to restore from? (A corrupted hard drive, registry, system setting...etc...??)

Also, when restoring, if a restore point has not detected any changes then there is nothing to restore. A commercial backup program would be recommended for full or incremental backups saved to a partition or secure part of your hard drive.

 

Hi and welcome. What is the exact message you are receiving?

 

Are you using any kind of registry cleaner ? i.e Registry mechanic or similar ?

I used to use registry mechanic until I realised it was picking up my restore points as problems and deleting them , making it impossible to restore my system.

 

Hi- Thank you all for posting a reply. I was having trouble with my computer recognizing my cd/dvd drive when I was trying to put vacation pics on a cd. I thought I'd restore to an earlier time when I knew I had last used my cd/dvd drive. The message was: put a blank
cd in E drive. (E drive is cd/dvd) I tried numerous blanks but couldn't do it. That's when I tried restoring. I ended up getting a new dvd drive
and I still can't do a restore. I know I don't need to now but, it still bothers me...what if I need to restore at alter date.

 

Are you sure you are trying to restore from a restore disk that has something on it? Or system restore under system tools? And what error message do you get if you try?

 

Hi- I'm using system restore. Thanks,

 

The message is: cannot restore at this time. I've gotten 3 x's

 

I think you should try clearing all system restore points, by unchecking the system restore, then reboot, then recheck it and see if you can create a good NEW restore point.