Your computer cannot be restored to...?

**Dharuna** · 20-12-2004

I’m using a Windows XP Pro SP2 desktop which is giving me some problems since last couple of weeks. So I wanted to restore it at my previous restore points but is not allowing me to do the same. Not on just 1 or 2, but all restore points. Whenever I try doing it, I get an error message saying “Your computer cannot be restored to...”.

Can anyone please tell me what is preventing the system to get restored? I need to restore it to get rid of these problems. Please help.

**Dharitree** · 21-12-2004

Don’t worry dude, even I had this problem once with my HP laptop. When I called them after struggling lot with this error, that HP guy told me to just boot in Safe Mode and Restore the system. I did the same and there was no problem. So if your system restore is not working good in normal mode, restart the pc in safe mode and carry on.

**Winckle** · 22-12-2004

You probably have corrupt system restore points. Disable system restore to purge them, then re enable it again. Hope it works.

**Dharuna** · 22-12-2004

Thank you very much for the solution Dharitree. Booting in Safe Mode and carrying out a restore from there did it for me. Mean while I also came through this KB Article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302796/EN-US/ that may help many more.