"The restore point selected was damaged or deleted during the restore"

Originally Posted by Saltgrass

Could you give us some information about your system?

How large is your hard drive and how much free space does it show?

What settings do you show in the Restore settings for what partitions/drives you are protecting and how much space?

Do you do any type of system cleaning that might disrupt the information for the restore points?

If you right click the C: partition and select properties, then Previous versions, are you showing restore points? How many and can you use the Open button to look at them?

15.8 free out of 223

I do not know but most likely default settings

and Yes it is showing restore points as far back as 5/24/2012

Originally Posted by jayboy

Last week I had many BSOD's
but they have since stopped and I have SP1 installed so could I still upgrade install?

In theory yes.. Have you checked your 'Event viewer'? It may give information pertinent to this problem.

Originally Posted by kemical

In theory yes.. Have you checked your 'Event viewer'? It may give information pertinent to this problem.

Hi kemical this is what the event viewer showed


Log Name: Application
Source: System Restore
Date: 5/26/2012 7:30:08 AM
Event ID: 8206
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Jay-PC
Description:
The restore point selected was damaged or deleted during the restore (Restore Operation).
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="System Restore" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">8206</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-05-26T14:30:08.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>29223</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>Jay-PC</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>Restore Operation</Data>
<Binary>00000000AE0800009408000000000000CBC8392507000000000000000000000000000000</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>

Hi

If you want to do an upgrade reinstall you will have to remove service pack 1 first unless you have a OS disk that already has it incorporated.

How to uninstall Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

This was a lot easier before SP1.

Here's a guide on how to repair Windows 7.

Repair Install - Windows 7 Forums

I have to say that over the years I've had many times when the Windows Restore Point didn't work.
It seems that a lot of changes made after the restore point is made negates it, since it can't deal with some of the things that have been modified since it was created.

But to avoid having to do this over and over use a back up utility to make a system backup that will restore your whole C:\ drive back to the way it was when you backed it up. The whole process can take as little as 15 minutes.

There are a few free ones that people say work well, I use Acronis True Image.

But as far as I know the native Windows 7 back up works.

Mike

Originally Posted by jayboy

There has to be another way without doing a vanilla reinstall?
So if this happens again am I just suppose to reinstall my OS?

That's why the smart operator makes frequent images. Imaging with free Macrium - Windows 7 Forums

Hey guys is there anything else I can try besides a re-install and upgrade install?
There's just gotta be a solution to this....

My best guess right now is that you don't have enough room on the hard drive. The shadow copy process is supposed to use just a small percentage, but maybe your restore points are large enough they are being deleted. But for a message to say the restore point was overwritten during the restore operation, seems a little strange and I can think of no other reason.

I don't suppose you would feel like imaging the drive and installing a larger one, or moving some items off the drive for testing?

Just to follow on with Saltgrasses post, check the screenshot on how to configure disk space for system restore: