System Restore Broken; How to initialize?

Hi,
My copy of System Restore Services on Vista Enterprise SP2 is BROKEN.
This is presumabably because of dual boot with a Windows XP problem.
I have fixed the XP registry to exclude Volumes it should not overwrite. I
have tried
turning System Restore off. That did not fix the problem. So I turned it
back on.

Now I am trying to "scrub" the system so that I can initialize a new System
Restore Point
and get on with life. But I would prefer not reinstalling everything which
would
take over a week.

When I use the system protection option, the "search for restore points
option'
hangs. The create system restore point button is grayed out.

Automatic updates and those installs using Wise Installer stall and do not
complete.
Apparently something has locked the function.

If you have a clue as to how to untie this knot, I's appreciate your sharing
it.
TIA.
Ed

Hi,

Disable System Restore and reboot. If any System Volume Information folders
remain on the root of any monitored volume, delete them. Then turn System
Restore back on.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Edward Feustel" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi,
> My copy of System Restore Services on Vista Enterprise SP2 is BROKEN.
> This is presumabably because of dual boot with a Windows XP problem.
> I have fixed the XP registry to exclude Volumes it should not overwrite. I
> have tried
> turning System Restore off. That did not fix the problem. So I turned it
> back on.
>
> Now I am trying to "scrub" the system so that I can initialize a new
> System Restore Point
> and get on with life. But I would prefer not reinstalling everything which
> would
> take over a week.
>
> When I use the system protection option, the "search for restore points
> option'
> hangs. The create system restore point button is grayed out.
>
> Automatic updates and those installs using Wise Installer stall and do not
> complete.
> Apparently something has locked the function.
>
> If you have a clue as to how to untie this knot, I's appreciate your
> sharing it.
> TIA.
> Ed

Rick,
I got rid of System Volume Information on the Windows Vista Enterprise root.
The System Properties/System Protection window cannot find any System
Restore Points
nor does it allow me to create any.

I have 8 partitions total with Windows XP Home, Windows Vista SP2, Windows
Server 2008, and Windows 7 RC installed
on 4 of the partitions.

The other systems all perform Microsoft Update properly and seem to work.

Must I delete all the System Volume Information folders on the root
partitions of the other systems while running Vista?
Are the ones that I see specific to Vista, or in deleting them, will I
disable their functionality?
Thanks,
Ed Feustel

"Rick Rogers" <> wrote in message
news:%23gV7%...
> Hi,
>
> Disable System Restore and reboot. If any System Volume Information
> folders remain on the root of any monitored volume, delete them. Then turn
> System Restore back on.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Have a look whether shadowstorage was allocated for that partition. Us
VSSADMIN LIST SHADOWSTORAGE in cmd. The "maximum" should be 10 to 30GB
depending on the size of the partition (15% of the total partitio
size). Figure 1GB per restore point. The minimum required, by the way
is 300MB. But that is completely useless because that cannot even fi
one restore point - just the control info

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whs

Hi,

The SVI folder should be removed from the root of any volume that was being
monitored by SR, others should not be affected.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
Vote for my shoe: http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Edward Feustel" <> wrote in message
news:%23ZL%23$...
> Rick,
> I got rid of System Volume Information on the Windows Vista Enterprise
> root.
> The System Properties/System Protection window cannot find any System
> Restore Points
> nor does it allow me to create any.
>
> I have 8 partitions total with Windows XP Home, Windows Vista SP2, Windows
> Server 2008, and Windows 7 RC installed
> on 4 of the partitions.
>
> The other systems all perform Microsoft Update properly and seem to work.
>
> Must I delete all the System Volume Information folders on the root
> partitions of the other systems while running Vista?
> Are the ones that I see specific to Vista, or in deleting them, will I
> disable their functionality?
> Thanks,
> Ed Feustel
>
> "Rick Rogers" <> wrote in message
> news:%23gV7%...
>> Hi,
>>
>> Disable System Restore and reboot. If any System Volume Information
>> folders remain on the root of any monitored volume, delete them. Then
>> turn System Restore back on.
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>