Create System Restore point fails - Vista Home Premium

I'm in the process of rebuilding my wife's Sony Viao after Sony reimaged the
HD (Vista Home Premium) and got to the point where I wanted to create a
restore point. This attempt failed, I went into SAFE mode and tried again and
I get a message "The Volume Shadow Copy service used by System Restore is not
working. For more information view the event log. (0x81000202).

I go to the Event Viewer and it fails "Event Log service is unavailable.
Verify that the service is running."

When I go to the "Services" I don't see any entry for the "Event Log" - what
should I be looking for? How do I get the system restore working?

 

See the following . Applies to Vista also

http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srfail.html

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"JGT" <JGT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm in the process of rebuilding my wife's Sony Viao after Sony reimaged the
> HD (Vista Home Premium) and got to the point where I wanted to create a
> restore point. This attempt failed, I went into SAFE mode and tried again and
> I get a message "The Volume Shadow Copy service used by System Restore is not
> working. For more information view the event log. (0x81000202).
>
> I go to the Event Viewer and it fails "Event Log service is unavailable.
> Verify that the service is running."
>
> When I go to the "Services" I don't see any entry for the "Event Log" - what
> should I be looking for? How do I get the system restore working?

 

JGT;1065187 Wrote:
> I'm in the process of rebuilding my wife's Sony Viao after Sony reimaged
> the
> HD (Vista Home Premium) and got to the point where I wanted to create a
> restore point. This attempt failed, I went into SAFE mode and tried
> again and
> I get a message "The Volume Shadow Copy service used by System Restore
> is not
> working. For more information view the event log. (0x81000202).
>
> I go to the Event Viewer and it fails "Event Log service is
> unavailable.
> Verify that the service is running."
>
> When I go to the "Services" I don't see any entry for the "Event Log" -
> what
> should I be looking for? How do I get the system restore working?

Hi jgt,

You might try this ( if you haven't already ) :

Scroll down the Services list to "Volume Shadow Copy", double click on
it and Start it, then rt click, select Properties and set Startup type
to Automatic.

Also check that "Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider" is started
and set to manual.

Hope it helps

SIW2


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SIW2

 

Hope I never have to get involved witha ll that. Is W7 any worse?


"Peter Foldes" <okf22@hotmail.com> a écrit dans le message de
news:OhbBn6D7JHA.3860@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> See the following . Applies to Vista also
>
> http://bertk.mvps.org/html/srfail.html
>
> --
> Peter
>
> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
>
> "JGT" <JGT@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3A528ABB-FA91-4D8C-A3D0-346A2088C0D8@microsoft.com...
>> I'm in the process of rebuilding my wife's Sony Viao after Sony reimaged
>> the
>> HD (Vista Home Premium) and got to the point where I wanted to create a
>> restore point. This attempt failed, I went into SAFE mode and tried again
>> and
>> I get a message "The Volume Shadow Copy service used by System Restore is
>> not
>> working. For more information view the event log. (0x81000202).
>>
>> I go to the Event Viewer and it fails "Event Log service is unavailable.
>> Verify that the service is running."
>>
>> When I go to the "Services" I don't see any entry for the "Event Log" -
>> what
>> should I be looking for? How do I get the system restore working?
>

 

The "Volume Shadow Copy" was not correct so I changed it. Still I could not
restore and as I went through the page Peter suggested the hole seemed to be
getting deeper. Because I was so early in the restore I just reimaged the HD
and started fresh. This time it worked.

As I inch my way forward through the rebuild I keep creating restore points
just to ensure it is working.

Thanks to all who tried to help.