Windows 10: System Protection - Restore "drive"

I was, possibly foolishly, going through the system protection settings today and notice that the Restore drive had protection off. I went into the configure settings and enabled it. Noticing that the drive size was at 5.45 Gig with a max set at 20.1 Gig.


After hitting apply and ok, I thought about it and thought that maybe that was a bad idea and went back in and turned it off. When I did this, it gave me a warning that there would be no protection for that drive and that all restore points would be disabled. Thinking that there wouldn't have been any restore pts there anyway, since it was already disabled, I figured not a big deal. When I said ok, that 5.45 Gig current usage disappeared.


Did I just screw something up? If so, what do I do now?


Thank you, in advance.

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Cannot Create System Restore Point Because Cannot Turn On System Protection

In Control Panel/System/System Properties/System Protection, "Available Drives," all that is listed is "Searching..." No drives are located, so no System Restore point can be established.

How to fix?

I have an extensive active thread in another area of the community dealing with the failure of this PC to install the latest Windows 10 update. Prior to executing the next suggested step to fix that problem I need to create a System Restore point, so a
solution to this issue must be found before I can move forward on the major problem.

YES, I have ALREADY run the SFC Command as Administrator and the report was that everything was A-OK.

 

Is There a Way To Protect System Restore?

So I just got off trying to fix my dad's computer, for the 2nd time in a few months, because it has some kind of malware or trojan on it. The first thing I always go to to fix his system is system restore because he doesn't make many changes, if any at all, to windows, software, or basically anything system restore restores other than updating windows. But the last few times he's had various problems system restore, with either has it's restore points being deleted or restore won't even start up. So basically I really need help finding a way to either password protect system restore (preferably for free), get a 3rd restore program that won't get disabled by this malware crap, or any other alternative. I really appreciate any help you can give me because I've had this happen to a few computers that have come my way to fix and i wish there where a way to stop it.

Edit: Just found a program call Settings Lock (http://tinyurl.com/cuzen4) that I tested and it did successfully stop me from turning off system restore or changing it--but it's $25 and i'm not sure if restore could be turned off another other than my gui interface with that program so i'm still hoping to find something better or at least hear some more info about it.

 

How do I enable system restore on my PC?

System restore allows users to revert the computer state at a previous point in time. In order for you to enable System Restore on your PC, simply follow the steps below:

• On Search, type Control Panel.
• Click on System.
• On the left pane, select System protection.
• Click on it to open System Properties.
• Under System Protection tab, you will see the Protection Settings.
• Make sure the Protection is set to ON for the system drive.
• If not, select the System Drive or C Drive and click Configure button.
  
• Select Turn on system protection and click on Apply.

If you have other questions, do let us know.