Windows 7 Defragmenter & System Restore

Did a Drive C defrag and Windows system cleanup yesterday. All my earlier system restore points seems to have disappeared. Is this normal? don't recall seeing any warning of this.
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Hi
during the system cleanup process you also deleted your system restore files.
so you can do one thing.. just now create an new restore point .. and you can use it in future.. if any problem occurd.
Hope it helps!
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