No System Restore

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I have a Dimension 4500 Windows XP. I added an additional
drive to pc a few days ago. I made the new one my boot
drive and the old one additional storage. I hardly ever
restore a previous point or create manual check points
but I attempted to open the System Restore but kept
getting that error screen that tells you to send report
to Microsoft.

I tried getting into the System Restore tab in System
Maintenance but received the following message:

Shell32.dll, control_RunDLL
C:/windows/system32/sysdm.cpl, system

I've tried a few of the options from the knowledge base
one being going into Safe Mode and looking for a sr.inf
but all that is there is a sr.pnf which I can't do
anything with.

Is there any other options I have to repair the System
Restore?
 
Think for a minute...Your old restore points recognized your original hard
drive as the boot drive. Now you have a new boot drive. Your old restore
points will not work. Remove them all and set a new restore point.

Ted Zieglar
formerly "Rocket J. Squirrel"
 
I can't access it do anything. I don't remember if after
running compmgmt or going into computer managment, but I
found a error log that on 7/31 System Restore failed and
would not function again until 200MB was available.

When I installed the drive I just let the software
format, partition, and copy. It's an 80GB drive.

So I don't know when the problem occurred but maybe it
has to do with the way I installed the drive.

I just need to find out if this is fixable or will I have
to reinstall Windows XP.
 
can you access system restore through the SYSTEM applet in CONTROL panel?

(I'm wondering if the start menu shortcut is broken or the applet is
broken).
 
I can't access it through the control panel or from Start-
Accessories-System Tools.

When I try to access it from the Control Panel that's
when I get the shell32.dll... error and through the Start
Menu it doesn't give me a reason except the option to
send to Microsoft.

Maybe I need to try using the Windows XP cd?
 
Lois,

I'm having the exact same problem after I moved my WinXP
partition to a new hard drive.

Did you get it fixed without re-installing XP?

Thanks, Nick
 
JBain said:
I found a fix for this problem here:

http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-6270-5225409.html

I had the same thing, and this worked!

Good luck!
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I installed a new Maxtor hard drive some time ago. I don't know how long my
System Restore has not been working, but I just discovered that it wasn't. I
tried the fix at the link above, but it didn't work. When I got to the last
step, pressing the "Apply" button, all I got was the hourglass and then a
message saying it had encountered a problem. I think my problem has something
to do with the new hard drive, but I can't find a solution.
 
why should this be so obvious ?
why should the user have to think a minute to solve a system design fault ?
your post unfairly implies a level of stupidity of the unfortunate victim of
a MS problem
 
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