Create System Restore point fails - Vista Home Premium

I'm in the process of rebuilding my wife's Sony Viao after Sony reimaged the
HD (Vista Home Premium) and got to the point where I wanted to create a
restore point. This attempt failed, I went into SAFE mode and tried again and
I get a message "The Volume Shadow Copy service used by System Restore is not
working. For more information view the event log. (0x81000202).

I go to the Event Viewer and it fails "Event Log service is unavailable.
Verify that the service is running."

When I go to the "Services" I don't see any entry for the "Event Log" - what
should I be looking for? How do I get the system restore working?

See the following . Applies to Vista also

http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srfail.html

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"JGT" <> wrote in message
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> I'm in the process of rebuilding my wife's Sony Viao after Sony reimaged the
> HD (Vista Home Premium) and got to the point where I wanted to create a
> restore point. This attempt failed, I went into SAFE mode and tried again and
> I get a message "The Volume Shadow Copy service used by System Restore is not
> working. For more information view the event log. (0x81000202).
>
> I go to the Event Viewer and it fails "Event Log service is unavailable.
> Verify that the service is running."
>
> When I go to the "Services" I don't see any entry for the "Event Log" - what
> should I be looking for? How do I get the system restore working?

Hope I never have to get involved witha ll that. Is W7 any worse?


"Peter Foldes" <> a écrit dans le message de
news:...
> See the following . Applies to Vista also
>
> http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srfail.html
>
> --
> Peter
>
> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
>
> "JGT" <> wrote in message
> news:3A528ABB-FA91-4D8C-A3D0-...
>> I'm in the process of rebuilding my wife's Sony Viao after Sony reimaged
>> the
>> HD (Vista Home Premium) and got to the point where I wanted to create a
>> restore point. This attempt failed, I went into SAFE mode and tried again
>> and
>> I get a message "The Volume Shadow Copy service used by System Restore is
>> not
>> working. For more information view the event log. (0x81000202).
>>
>> I go to the Event Viewer and it fails "Event Log service is unavailable.
>> Verify that the service is running."
>>
>> When I go to the "Services" I don't see any entry for the "Event Log" -
>> what
>> should I be looking for? How do I get the system restore working?
>

The "Volume Shadow Copy" was not correct so I changed it. Still I could not
restore and as I went through the page Peter suggested the hole seemed to be
getting deeper. Because I was so early in the restore I just reimaged the HD
and started fresh. This time it worked.

As I inch my way forward through the rebuild I keep creating restore points
just to ensure it is working.

Thanks to all who tried to help.