Solved Windows 7 Restore ..please help I cannot create od restore

[artinusa]

I am unable to create or restore in windows 7..unsure why but the pics show that I can see restore facility start it but then it fails dues to a time out. *(See maessages) I have nade sure all necessary processes are running and all dependants. Ihave invoked volsnap and resized the restore chosen size.. I have to my knowledge changed any system files SFC /f is good CHKDSK is Good

NOTE: I wait many minutes for the search in system protection to find the working drive when seeking restore..it does find the action drive eventually. I have tried the restore VSB's to no avail..can anyone suggest more to try please. I checked out the error and did as suggested no success

 

[Layback Bear]

How much free space do you have on your (C) partition?

 

[artinusa]

Thank you for your reply ..I have 300 GB

 

[Layback Bear]

300 gb of free space should be more than enough.

Lets see what Windows 7 thinks. Please complete this tutorial by Golden. The information may be helpful.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/274797-disk-management-post-screen-capture-image.html

 

[artinusa]

Win 7 Restore

Here is the Disk management widow.. I have added some 40 GB today so it is down from 300GB to about 251GB TIA for your help

 

[Layback Bear]

I don't see a problem there.

Take you time and go through this tutorial by Brink.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/697-system-restore-point-create.html

At the bottom of the same page their are a ton of other tutorials concerning restore points.
Don't let the long list overwhelm you. Just about every thing known to mankind concerning Windows 7 restore points is covered.

Any questions, just ask.

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• How to Turn System Protection On or Off in Windows 7
• How to Enable or Disable Windows 7 System Restore
• How to Make a "Create System Restore Point" Shortcut in XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8
• How to Add "Create Restore Point" to Context Menu in XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8
• How to Delete System Protection Restore Points in Windows 7
• How to Do a System Restore in Windows 7
• How to Repair Windows 7 System Files with System File Checker
• How to Backup and Restore the Windows 7 Registry
• How to Create a Windows 7 System Protection Properties Shortcut
• How to Automatically Create A System Restore Point at Startup
• How to Restore Files and Folders in Windows 7 with Previous Versions
• How to Stop System Restore Points from being Deleted in Vista and Windows 7 when Dual Booting with XP
• How to Undo the Last System Restore in Vista and Windows 7
• How to Delete Shadow Copies in Vista and Windows 7
• How to Extract Files and Folders from System Restore Points in Windows 7 and Vista
• How to Enable or Disable Automatic System Restore Point Creation in Windows

 

[artinusa]

Thank you for your help...I tried the VBS program and got the attached result..So I tried the system protection again to do a restore and now find that I had to wait a litle while till it found my drives some 20 mins is this symptomatic of another issue. and could this be part of the problem I am having I made sure it was turned on I checked volsnap and volume shadow and dependants and all were Ok and started. The restore configure is set to well over 100GB about 12%..I also notice that revo and Easus cannot do a reg back up for the same reasons? Is there a solution? Does anyone know if recent updatescould have caused the errors

 

[artinusa]

I did several of the helps tutorials and noticed that even though I resized the storage and it show it the allocated space was zero please see attached files results is this normal for allocted to show zero..or is this the problem

 

[artinusa]

Elevated command data..restore: I might have to apologise I am sending (3times) detail to the forum but not seeing it in the current post..If for some strange reason I am duplicating then I am sorry and ask mods to remove

 

[Layback Bear]

Well I have been doing a little research and found that another member had your problem and the fix was found here.

http://www.sevenforums.com/backup-restore/48069-unable-create-system-image-restore-point.html

richc46​

The problem may be caused by a corrupted restore point that is still in the system. Turn off system restore, turn it back on and then try to create a restore point. This deletes any restore points. Go to help and support, type in turn off system restore and lets see what happens now.


Some folks here have some good ideas.

0x81000101 Shadow copy timeout error - Microsoft Community

 

[artinusa]

I was just reading my logs and see that my hard disk ( 'The device, \Device\Harddisk2\DR2, has a bad block.") has a bad block..could this be the offender and do you know how I can repair or avoid a bad block//will chkdsk do it? I live in hope..

 

[Layback Bear]

It's possible and it doesn't cost anything to run it.

Here is a tutorial to help guide you.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/433-disk-check.html

Did you try richc46 suggestion.

 

[artinusa]

Good news and thnak for all the info- after the 6th attempt at turning off and turning on system restore if finally got it to work and I now have a restore point which alos mean that I can use backup facilities too..whooo Hoooo..simple in the end but very frustratiing

 

[Layback Bear]

Very glad things worked out for you.

Happy computing.

 

[artinusa]

I checked my hard disk with Sentinel and it show a perfect disk surface. I guess it was software block and maybe a leftover point..now it gone thanks for the support

 

[Layback Bear]

You are very welcome.

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