create a restore point now and see if that works.
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John the West Ham fan
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"MaryAnn" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have a Dell Inspiron 530s purchased 5/08. I upgraded from Vista to
> Vista Ultimate. I recently tried to install the Windows 7 Beta and
> received a message that it could not identify my drives and I could not
> download the program.
>
> I tried to do a System Restore and received the following message:
>
> There was an unexpected error in the property page:
> The Volume Shadow Copy Service used by System Restore is not working.
> For more information view the event log (0x81000202).
> Please close the property page and try again.
>
> I retried several times but it does not work. I tried getting info at
> Microsoft Support but there was nothing available on this event log #.
>
> Help!.......MP831