Windows 10 System Restore Points Missing or Removed

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Fix 1: Check and Remove Suspicious Viruses, Programs

Unsurprisingly, computer viruses delight in deleting your restore points. It's akin to one of their favorite activities, rendering you unable to revert your computer to a previous state.

Utilize your antivirus software to scan and eliminate suspicious viruses and malicious software from your computer.

Create a system restore point once the potential risk has been eliminated.

Moreover, do you utilize McAfee Quick Clean for daily disk cleaning and optimization? Be cautious. It includes an option called "System Restore Point Cleaner." If this feature is activated, it will delete Windows System Restore Points without your awareness.

Fix 2: Disable System Restore, and Then Enable It

Why is the restore point missing even though System Restore is functioning properly? You might find this little trick interesting.

As you are aware, System Restore regularly creates backups and stores an ever-increasing number of backup files within a folder named "System Volume Information." If this folder becomes corrupted, no restore points will be saved properly之后. To resolve this issue and resume the backup process, you need to delete the entire folder by disabling System Restore, and then re-enabling it. Here's how to do it: 1. Disable System Restore: - Press `Win + R` to open the Run dialog box. - Type `sysdm.cpl` and press Enter to open System Properties. - Go to the "System Protection" tab. - Select the drive for which you want to disable System Restore (usually the C: drive). - Click on "Configure." - In the System Protection window, select "Turn off system protection" and click "Apply." - Confirm any prompts that appear. 2. Delete the "System Volume Information" folder: - Open File Explorer and navigate to the root directory of the drive where the folder is located (e.g., C:\). - Locate and right-click on the "System Volume Information" folder. - Choose "Delete" and confirm any prompts. 3. Re-enable System Restore: - Return to the System Properties window (follow steps 1-3 above). - Instead of selecting "Turn off system protection," choose "Restore system settings and previous versions of files." - Click "Apply" and then "OK." - A new "System Volume Information" folder will be created, and System Restore will start creating backups again. After completing these steps, your System Restore function should be working normally again, and new restore points will be created.

In Windows 10/8.1/8/7:

1. Right-click on "This PC" or "Computer" and select "Properties." 2. Click on "System Protection" in the left-hand panel. 3. Under the "System Protection" tab, click on the "Configure" button.

1. In the Restore Settings, you will find an option that asks you to "Turn off system protection."
2. Proceed to apply the changes you have made.

Restart your computer, and then follow the same steps to re-enable System Protection. After that, attempt to create a system restore point and check if it vanishes when you restart the computer again.

Fix 3: Adjust Disk Space Usage

In the System Protection settings, you'll find an option to allocate disk space for backup files. System Restore requires a specific amount of disk space. When the size of older restore points surpasses the allocated limit, they are automatically deleted to accommodate new ones. This 'disk usage' setting could potentially be the reason why your restore points are not being created.

The ideal disk usage for maintaining restore points is about five percent of the backup drive's capacity.

1. Follow the steps in Fix #2 to open System Protection.
2. Click on Configure.
3. Under the Disk Space Usage section, adjust the movable bar for Max Usage and consider increasing it to 5 percent. In my case, this amounts to approximately 5GB of space that Windows will allocate for System Protection.

Fix 4: Repair Corrupted System Files

Another corruption issue that could delete your restore points is with the system disk where the backups were created.

You can attempt to utilize the command "Chkdsk /f" to rectify corruption issues with the hard drive in Windows 10.
Subsequently, run the command "sfc /scannow" to scan all Windows files and repair any corrupted or missing system files.

Read Also: SFC scannow: There is a system repair pending

Fix 5: Restore System Points in Safe Mode

Safe Mode offers a high likelihood of creating a system restore point, even if all other fixes fail to resolve the issue. The restore points that don't show in your operating system might be accessible in Safe Mode. We recommend giving it a try.

• Continuously press F8 while the computer is restarting until it loads the Advanced Boot Options menu.
• In the Advanced Boot Options, choose Safe Mode with Command Prompt. Press Enter.
• Type: rstrui.exe and then press Enter.
• Follow the System Restore prompts to restore your computer by selecting a restore point from the available options listed.