system restore won't show beyond last month

[harrymac]

I was trying to restore my windows XP system to a previous state. In the restore option it lets me choose dates in November and October, but won't go back beyond that. I know I've taken many restore points and I have no disc storage problems. How can I go back three months or more?
regards
Harry

 

[meastaugh1]

When you start System Restore, click System Restore Settings, how much space is allocated to System Restore? If you've created too many restore points without allocating enough space to store them in, they will have been removed.

 

[linney]

System Restore can keep restore points up to a maximum of 90 days. At most it can use 12% of your hard drive before earlier restore points are deleted.

Q301224 - System Restore "Restore Points" Are Missing or Deleted

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q301224&FR=1&PA=1&SD=HSCH

Q302796 - Troubleshooting System Restore in Windows XP
This article describes how to perform basic troubleshooting for issues that involve the System Restore tool in Windows XP.


Going back in time to a very old restore point can cause more problems than it may fix as you will lose a lot of program installs and updates done since the selected restore point.