Solved Please help re: System Restore encountered an error (0x81000203)

[Tara100]

Hello

I'm cracking up as I've tried all recommended fixes for the above error message - System restore won't 'enable' and as in the screenshot, most of the options are greyed out.

I've tried registry fixes, and used 'FixWin' - nothing will fix the problem - please help !


Tara

 

[Tara100]

Here are the results of the disk check I ran about a short while ago:

Log Name: Application
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Wininit
Date: 23/09/2011 18:47:49
Event ID: 1001
Task Category: None
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: UXB
Description:​

Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is Acer.​

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk. ​

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
177664 file records processed. ​

File verification completed.
337 large file records processed. ​

0 bad file records processed. ​

0 EA records processed. ​

76 reparse records processed. ​

CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
232976 index entries processed. ​

Index verification completed.
0 unindexed files scanned. ​

0 unindexed files recovered. ​

CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
177664 file SDs/SIDs processed. ​

Cleaning up 279 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 279 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 279 unused security descriptors.
Security descriptor verification completed.
27657 data files processed. ​

CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
37666448 USN bytes processed. ​

Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
177648 files processed. ​

File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
46122974 free clusters processed. ​

Free space verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.​

230462463 KB total disk space.
45604964 KB in 128209 files.
76568 KB in 27658 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
289035 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
184491896 KB available on disk.​

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
57615615 total allocation units on disk.
46122974 allocation units available on disk.​

Internal Info:
00 b6 02 00 e4 60 02 00 49 4a 04 00 00 00 00 00 .....`..IJ......
29 03 00 00 4c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 )...L...........
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................​

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.​

Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Wininit" Guid="{206f6dea-d3c5-4d10-bc72-989f03c8b84b}" EventSourceName="Wininit" />
<EventID Qualifiers="16384">1001</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>4</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2011-09-23T17:47:49.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>17496</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>UXB</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>​

Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is Acer.​

A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk. ​

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)...
177664 file records processed. ​

File verification completed.
337 large file records processed. ​

0 bad file records processed. ​

0 EA records processed. ​

76 reparse records processed. ​

CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
232976 index entries processed. ​

Index verification completed.
0 unindexed files scanned. ​

0 unindexed files recovered. ​

CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)...
177664 file SDs/SIDs processed. ​

Cleaning up 279 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 279 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 279 unused security descriptors.
Security descriptor verification completed.
27657 data files processed. ​

CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
37666448 USN bytes processed. ​

Usn Journal verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)...
177648 files processed. ​

File data verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)...
46122974 free clusters processed. ​

Free space verification is complete.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.​

230462463 KB total disk space.
45604964 KB in 128209 files.
76568 KB in 27658 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
289035 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
184491896 KB available on disk.​

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
57615615 total allocation units on disk.
46122974 allocation units available on disk.​

Internal Info:
00 b6 02 00 e4 60 02 00 49 4a 04 00 00 00 00 00 .....`..IJ......
29 03 00 00 4c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 )...L...........
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................​

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.
</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>​

 

[Tara100]

Oh dear, I've sorted it now - it was the 'Turbo Boost' feature in AdvancedSystemCare - as soon as I switched that off, all was well.


Tara

 

[panais]

Yes Turbo Boost causes troubles sometimes.

You are not alone on this.

Well the important is that problem solved

 

[amicus certus]

Tara

many thanks.

I am using Tunup2012 and have the same problem. Your solution worked perferctly

Many thanks once more

Cameron

 

[Pympjuice]

Thank you very much! Been looking around for a while, when I came across this post, I look at Turbo Mode for my TuneUp Utilities Software, and voila, System Protection works now. Thank you very much!

 

[amcshaikh]

Tuneup 2012-2013 utilities turbo option

I have raised this issue of System restore failure to Tuneup Support. They replied as follows:
You should uncheck following Turbo Mode settings:

- Limit support for digital cameras and scanners

- Rarely used services

- Turn off network communication services

- Error reporting

In fact, in my case even System image backup was failing, which started working once I disabled the Turbo option. Now I will follow the above advice with Turbo option enabled, and try again.

 

[tcpolchies]

system restore

type services in your start up search programs menu, open then enable back up and shadow copy volume and any other back up listed in there. Also, if your noticing constant changes made to your pc settings try restoring your firewall to default settings. Just as a precautionary measure.

I hope this helps.

T~

 

[GRAHAM3D]

Mmmm. I have the same problem. But I think it is caused by a hibernation problem I had earlier.
I cannot find turboboost, or advancedsystemcare. I cannot find gpedit.exe (from a diiferent post). In fact a lot of my software seems corrupted in some way. - no Internet, no Microsoft office function

I need to repair windows somehow. (Although windows works, just all the settings seem to have changed, and software doesn't work)
I don't want to lose all my settings and have to reinstall everything.
Can I look for the various system restore files among my back ups an find one that works?