System restore fails - 0x80070005

severedsolo · 04 Jan 2010

Cliff Jones said:

severedsolo said:

i had this problem, turned out my AV was blocking it, have you tried restoring from Safe Mode?

Norton is notorius for not turning off properly, even if youv disabled everything

Don't know about "Safe Mode"

when booting your PC spam F8 your pc should boot into Safe Mode.... (key may be different.... for instance on mine i have to press F5 then F8 when it loads to find Safe Mode check your documentation if these 2 dont work)

Tews · 04 Jan 2010

I find that it is much easier to make an image of the system drive and keep it up to date rather than depend on system restore... if something does go wrong, it is a simple matter of restoring the image ...

aloysiusttl · 27 May 2014

Hs this been repoted to Microsoft? It can be a bug in the OS with large drives. MS should fix it and issue a Windows update.

Aloysius

phuoc thiet · 26 Apr 2015

This is a security problem. I have been able to fix it by doing the following things:

1) Go to C:\System Volume Information, right click it then click Properties
2) In the General tab, clear the box Read Only in Attributes, then click Apply
3) Click the Security tab and click Continue
4) Create an Administrators group (if necessary) and give it Full control
5) Click OK to get out, then make a manual Restore Point (e.g. TestSR)
6) Test the new restore point to see if SR now works OK.

Hope this will fix the problem for you, as it did for me. Thanks.

aloysiusttl · 29 Apr 2015

I do not experience the problem any longer with my windows 8.1 pc. I think all the updates I have received and installed from Microsoft have cured the bug

Aloysius

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