Searching in System Protection - No drives show

I have a slightly different problem. When I go to the System Protection tab under available drives all I get is searching, it does not show the drives.

Fixed it, thanks.

Hi,,

I have the same problem. When I go to the "System Protection" tab of System Properties, the "Protection Settings/ Available Drives" just shows "Searching....." I can't figure out how to get it to see Drive C and allow me to check the box!

JosephS....can you please let me know how you fixed it??? I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium on a system that I upgraded (clean install) from Windows XP.

Thanks,
BOb

What was the solution to this? I have the same issue. Sits there searching for drives. All I have is C:.

I also have the same problem, I was having a problem getting FTM 2010 to install and the tech I was working with instructed my to run 'cleanup_tool' and then reinstall the .NET fiels. I had created a restore point just prior so it was working fine then. After running the cleanup tool file I found that I could not get system protection to run - like the others above it sits there searching for drives and all there is activated is C:.
Now when if it tries a Windows Update it hangs trying to create a restore point.
I tried a system file check but in found no integrity violations.
How can I get it back to where it was?

1) Run CMD as admin and at the command prompt type: sfc /sacnnow. Then hit enter. See if that resolves your problem.

2) Can you see the drives in System protection while in safe mode?

3) As a side thought, while in windows, turn off your antivirus app, then try.

Appreciate the activity on this thread. I have not been able to solve issue on my system.

- same behavior in safe mode and with (norton) antivirus off.

- running sfc /scannow - I get this console message:

Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them. (tail of the CBS.log file is below... it looks like there is some issue with tcpmon.ini...)


2010-04-04 20:02:09, Info CSI 000002d6 [SR] Verify complete
2010-04-04 20:02:09, Info CSI 000002d7 [SR] Repairing 1 components
2010-04-04 20:02:09, Info CSI 000002d8 [SR] Beginning Verify and Repair transaction
2010-04-04 20:02:09, Info CSI 000002d9 Hashes for file member \SystemRoot\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-p..rtmonitor-tcpmonini_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_2e6dc451c0fa9db5\tcpmon.ini do not match actual file [l:20{10}]"tcpmon.ini" :
Found: {l:32 b:as3OOcx5px0XiJa7f7s9BVvlW/FFlKR4NMU/T+UP/Kg=} Expected: {l:32 b:ENtKeUct91LKlHclgfWTvnCdCOHHwDe+SYrPzZTTezU=}
2010-04-04 20:02:09, Info CSI 000002da [SR] Cannot repair member file [l:20{10}]"tcpmon.ini" of Microsoft-Windows-Printing-StandardPortMonitor-TCPMonINI, Version = 6.1.7600.16385, pA = PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_AMD64 (9), Culture neutral, VersionScope = 1 nonSxS, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}, Type neutral, TypeName neutral, PublicKey neutral in the store, hash mismatch
2010-04-04 20:02:09, Info CSI 000002db Hashes for file member \SystemRoot\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-p..rtmonitor-tcpmonini_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_2e6dc451c0fa9db5\tcpmon.ini do not match actual file [l:20{10}]"tcpmon.ini" :
Found: {l:32 b:as3OOcx5px0XiJa7f7s9BVvlW/FFlKR4NMU/T+UP/Kg=} Expected: {l:32 b:ENtKeUct91LKlHclgfWTvnCdCOHHwDe+SYrPzZTTezU=}
2010-04-04 20:02:09, Info CSI 000002dc [SR] Cannot repair member file [l:20{10}]"tcpmon.ini" of Microsoft-Windows-Printing-StandardPortMonitor-TCPMonINI, Version = 6.1.7600.16385, pA = PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE_AMD64 (9), Culture neutral, VersionScope = 1 nonSxS, PublicKeyToken = {l:8 b:31bf3856ad364e35}, Type neutral, TypeName neutral, PublicKey neutral in the store, hash mismatch
2010-04-04 20:02:09, Info CSI 000002dd [SR] This component was referenced by [l:202{101}]"Microsoft-Windows-Foundation-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.7600.16385.WindowsFoundationDelivery"
2010-04-04 20:02:09, Info CSI 000002de Hashes for file member \??\C:\Windows\System32\tcpmon.ini do not match actual file [l:20{10}]"tcpmon.ini" :
Found: {l:32 b:as3OOcx5px0XiJa7f7s9BVvlW/FFlKR4NMU/T+UP/Kg=} Expected: {l:32 b:ENtKeUct91LKlHclgfWTvnCdCOHHwDe+SYrPzZTTezU=}
2010-04-04 20:02:09, Info CSI 000002df Hashes for file member \SystemRoot\WinSxS\amd64_microsoft-windows-p..rtmonitor-tcpmonini_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_2e6dc451c0fa9db5\tcpmon.ini do not match actual file [l:20{10}]"tcpmon.ini" :
Found: {l:32 b:as3OOcx5px0XiJa7f7s9BVvlW/FFlKR4NMU/T+UP/Kg=} Expected: {l:32 b:ENtKeUct91LKlHclgfWTvnCdCOHHwDe+SYrPzZTTezU=}
2010-04-04 20:02:09, Info CSI 000002e0 [SR] Could not reproject corrupted file [ml:520{260},l:46{23}]"\??\C:\Windows\System32"\[l:20{10}]"tcpmon.ini"; source file in store is also corrupted
2010-04-04 20:02:09, Info CSI 000002e1 Repair results created:
POQ 117 starts:

POQ 117 ends.
2010-04-04 20:02:09, Info CSI 000002e2 [SR] Repair complete
2010-04-04 20:02:09, Info CSI 000002e3 [SR] Committing transaction
2010-04-04 20:02:09, Info CSI 000002e4 Creating NT transaction (seq 2), objectname [6]"(null)"
2010-04-04 20:02:09, Info CSI 000002e5 Created NT transaction (seq 2) result 0x00000000, handle @0x344
2010-04-04 20:02:09, Info CSI 000002e6@2010/4/5:03:02:09.764 CSI perf trace:
CSIPERF:TXCOMMIT;7
2010-04-04 20:02:09, Info CSI 000002e7 [SR] Verify and Repair Transaction completed. All files and registry keys listed in this transaction have been successfully repaired

Hope someone comes up with a fix. I also ran SFC and disabled CA Security, but System Protection is still "Searching"

Has anyone found a fix for this yet?