System Restore not working - Windows 7

[Don Cooper]

Upgraded to Windows 7 from Vista.
Can't get System Restore to work. Nor did it work in Vista.
The last 2 windows reads: "The shadow copy provider had an error. Check the System & Application event logs for more information (0x80042306)"

Next: S.R. Window. There was an unexpected error:
Catastrophic failure (0x8000 FFFF).


Can anyone help???

 

[Layback Bear]

This site might be of some help.
0x8000FFFF "Catastrophic failure" Message with SQL Server ODBC Driver

 

[JMH]

Upgraded to Windows 7 from Vista.
Can't get System Restore to work. Nor did it work in Vista.
The last 2 windows reads: "The shadow copy provider had an error. Check the System & Application event logs for more information (0x80042306)"

Next: S.R. Window. There was an unexpected error:
Catastrophic failure (0x8000 FFFF).


Can anyone help???

Don Cooper,
See if this Tutorial is of help to you....
Good luck.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/57746-system-restore-general-troubleshooting-fix-issues.html

 

[bigmck]

Upgraded to Windows 7 from Vista.
Can't get System Restore to work. Nor did it work in Vista.
The last 2 windows reads: "The shadow copy provider had an error. Check the System & Application event logs for more information (0x80042306)"

Next: S.R. Window. There was an unexpected error:
Catastrophic failure (0x8000 FFFF).


Can anyone help???

Did you really upgrade or did you do a clean install? A clean install will eliminate a lot of problems.

 

[karlsnooks]

If you still have the problem, then clean install.
Clean Install - Prepare a drive for
Clean Install Windows 7