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Steevo:
I'll do that tonight.

The log I posted doesn't look bad.
I think it mostly rules out disk problems causing the missing restore points, no?

Anything else I could try to isolate this issue?

Shane:
Nope :-)

I/O errors is either corrupt file system, bad sectors or bad driver. The chkdsk you did only checked the file system but didnt check the rest. So if a volume shadow copy ended up on a bad sector you would get that error but chkdsk wouldn't see it if nothing is on that sector right now. This is why I want to do a bad sector check to be sure. :wink:

Shane

Steevo:
I'll do it tonight.
But I doubt this would cause restore points to not be created.
Or to disappear silently.

Can you suggest anything to look into as far as the restore points?
I had one automatically created last week by windows update, and I created several manual ones.
They all disappeared.

BTW, the two restore points I have now, one was manually created, one is created by tweaking.com windows repair. 

Shane:
Actually windows auto deletes restore points for the simplest of reasons.

This was for XP but still holds true and then some for 7 and so on
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/301224

Basically anything has a hiccup and windows removes the restore points. MS also lists not a single page on how to repair system restore or what files or services it needs. Really odd actually.

I myself never use system restore, ever. I use my registry backup and then I have my file backup to my external hard drive.

But my process for fixing something is to go through a list and start crossing stuff off. So many times I spent hours on something to find out it was something simple causing it the whole time lol

So I just want to cover all the simple stuff first, then move on to the bigger stuff :-)

Shane

Steevo:
I ran the disk check overnight and it completed successfully, however when I walked in this morning there was a character mode screen about what had happened.
Things had been fixed.
A message at the bottom that the system would now reboot.

It never did reboot, so I rebooted it.
Unfortunately there is nothing in the log.

So I am going to say the checkdisk ran OK and fixed some things but because it did not write we don't have any details about that.

Darn.

My two restore points are gone right now as well.  Is that because of the chkdsk? 

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