Create System Restore point fails - Vista Home Premium

[JGT]

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?

 

[Peter Foldes]

See the following . Applies to Vista also

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

 

[Daddy Tadpole]

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

 

[JGT]

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.