Unable to create system image or restore point

Rich, that worked like a charm. Thanks to you and Tim for taking your time to help. It was much appreciated.

Cheers.

Thanks richc46, your solution also helped me.

richc46 said:

Its people like you that return and say thank you, that make this whole effort worth while.
Merry Christmas.

Starting 5 days ago (8/31/2011), I have the same situation as fr0gger. Unable to restore, create a restore point, or back up due to error 0x81000101.

Unaware of any changes to my system at that time. Two successful Symantec AV scans since then (although they took 15x normal time) and two Malwarebytes anti-Malware.

Followed your advice. Turned off system restore for both drives c: (Windows 7-64 boot disk) and d: (xp 32 boot disk; dual boot system although I have not used XP in months)). Apparently successful since i now have no restore points and so space used for them. Then turned it back on for c: only and allowed use of up to 100% of disk.

Attempted to create a restore point. Failed again; same error. Can you help?

Tim, I'm sorry to say that I do not understand your advice; can explain a little more fully?

I just wanted to say thx. I was researching for a result for the same problem same O.S. That's when I ran across your forum. just from reading the replies Fr: "TimStitt & Richc46" I had the confidence enough to try their solution. I was worried that when i turn off the sys. restore I would lose the restore points that I had saved and the problem wouldnt be fixed. Now it works as well for me as the person you were helping on the forum. thank you very much for helping me fix yet, another, problem!

fr0gger said:

I currently can't make a system image or restore point.

The error I receive for the system image attempt is:

The backup failed.

Windows Backup timed-out before the shared protection point was created. (0x80780021)

Additional Information:
The creation of a shadow copy has timed out. Try this operation again. (0x81000101)

When I attempt a restore point it gives me the (0x81000101) error.


Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

After two years of trying everything, I finally fixed my System Restore using this post by WalterBerndl: Check if you have a program called "XFast USB" usually installed with the MoBo from the mainboard vendor ASRock.

When trying to create a restore point, it hung at "creating a restore point," followed by the error message: "The restore point could not be created for the following reasons: The creation of a shadow copy has timed out. Try this operation again. (0x81000101) Please try again."

I Googled and came across many others who had resolved the 0x81000101 problem by uninstalling XFAST USB. I was experiencing the problem with ASRock Xfast USB version 3.0.28.

I then uninstalled ASRock Xfast USB (xfastusb) and rebooted. This resolved the 0x81000101 problem.
NOTE: I first tried to upgrade to ASRock Xfast USB version 3.0.38, but again encountered the error message. Also removing it from the Start Up Menu does nothing, as there is an additional driver it installs to your system. Uninstalling it removes this driver

Another example of these "booster" programs is ASUS' "USB 3.0 Boost" But if you don't have those kinds of board, but have any kind of "USB turbo-boosters" installed, you still should remove it. They don't get along well with the Volume Shadow Copy service.

This to old discussion and should be renewed !!! (att to Brink !) Today we have loot off non windows causes for timed out restore or backup (every depends on VSS ! ) I check all dependence and all work's perfectly, but there is new threat to VSS it's name is Rollback RX (from horizonDataSys) It won't to be insolent and rude and if they ask it to disable VSS, i never allow this, but after short time I see no one restore point, and cannot create new or backup, system image !!! Rollback disable it, no matter that all is running perfectly but nothing of restore options !!! I take several years real war with this company, and cannot beat them ! So that you now for new possible causes, ad there is several almost identical or very similar software what as threat to VSS !!