Can't "RESTORE"!!!!!! HELP !!!! PLEASE
BACKGROUND: hp pavilion 7970, ME os , 128 Mb of ram with 44 % system resources free. oe 6, computer operator knows just enough about computers to be very, very DANGEROUS.:D :D
i've been noticing that my ability to restore my computer has been in danger & now i can't do that at all !!!
in the past i noticed that sometimes the computer wouldn't automatically do a system check point as often as i wished...so, when ever i thought abt it..i'd do a restoral point on my own.
however...this ability has gradually been diminished over the past couple months and as of today...it's no longer something i can do :( :( :(
1) i couldn't either go back to an earlier restoral point or add a restoral point unless i shut down the computer & restarted.
2) then last month, i noticed that when i clicked on 'the previous" month arrow shown on the upper left of the calendar on the restoral site..it went from july to december 2006 ????? there was no way i could get jun, may, apr 2007 etc.!!!
3) then noticed that there was no automatic restoral check points for over 1 month & it kept on giving a message block advising me that "system restoral is not able to create a restoral point (or go back to an earlier point). please restart & then run system restore again" but even if i did that...i couldn't do anything
4) today i again tried to enter a restoral point (since i think the last time it was done was done back in jun BUT i can't really verify that since now the calendar just shows aug 2007 & i can't go backward or forward on this calendar (gone are the days when i could get dec 2006 on the calendar, even though that's not what i wanted)
i'm afraid that if i get in trouble now, i won't be able to restore & all will be lost!!!
please help !!!!
thanks,
p.s. whenever i do a restoral..i've always do a defrag, cleane the disk, end all the running programs except 2-3 vital ones & have no background or screen saver on....i've done it this way for years & never had a problem till now.