My win 8.1 laptop does not do system restores, never has.
Have had my HP 15 Touchsmart laptop for almost a year and it has never performed a system restore when requested.
After going through the motions, the message on the desktop says the action was not completed and to try it once again.
How much disk space should I assign it to use? Meanwhile, it does not perform that much needed task.
I do not really want to undertake doing a complete reinstallation, it has happened to me before with my previous computer-starts to work correctly then it stops. With my present laptop, sys restore has never worked.
Any suggestions or comments.
Hi there @efkorman716
Welcome to the HP Support Forums!
I understand that you have never been able to get system restore to work on your notebook. I did some searching, and found a common cause of this is often some third party software, commonly antivirus software.
This page has a troubleshooting section partway down.
Using Microsoft System Restore (Windows 8)
Also there is this nice page that covers many possible fixes, give it a try and let me know if it helped.
Fix: System Restore not working in Windows 8 / 7 - thewindowsclub.com
As to how much space to allocate, it depends on the hard drive size and operating system but typically up to 5% of a drive is not a bad number. See the following:
How to Change Maximum Disk Space Used by System Protection and System Images in Windows 8 and 8.1 - eightforums.com
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