If you are a computer user, you have probably experienced the need to restore a single file. For example, if you accidentally deleted a file or if your computer crashed and lost all your data, you would need to restore the system so that your data is safe. There are two ways to mount a system restore point: through Windows Explorer or through the command line. Windows Explorer is the easiest way to mount a system restore point. To open Windows Explorer, click on the Start button and then type explorer.exe into the search box. When Explorer opens, click on the Restore Point button at the top of the window. The next time Windows starts up, it will ask you to choose which Restore Point you want to create. If you have multiple system restores points, then select one of them by clicking on its name in the list at the bottom of the window. If you don’t have any system restores points, then select None in the next window. Once you have chosen a Restore Point, click on OK in order to start restoring your computer’s data. The restoration process will take some time so be patient! After it has finished restoring your data, check whether everything is back as it was before or not! If everything is back as it was before, then congratulations! You successfully restored your computer! If not, please read this article for more information about how to Mount a System Restore Point so that your data is safe and sound.
Ever wanted to restore a file from the past, but don’t have a good way to do it? With System Restore Explore you can mount a System Restore snapshot, and browse a past copy of your entire drive.
Going Back In Time With System Restore Explorer
Head over to the developer’s website and grab yourself a free copy of System Restore Explorer. The program requires a simple next, next finish kind of install. Once the installation has completed the program will launch, to display a list of available system restore points.
To mount a restore point select it from the list and hit the Mount botton, when it become available.
Once you have mounted the restore point, it will open an explorer window for you to browse through the drive as if it was you system drive.
To restore a file, simple navigate to its location and copy it to the location of your choice, which can be anywhere out of the mounted directory.
When you are finished be sure to go back and un-mount the restore point.
This trick will work on Windows XP, Vista and 7.
