*Please help!* Going out of my mind on this one!!

[Steve Lawrence]

Hi there

I recently replaced my Seagate 20gb with a Western Digital 120gb in my WinXP
Home Edition PC and all seemed to go well. However when I next tried to run
System Restore it would not start and came up with an error report every
time. After searching newsgroups on Google, I found a thread from somebody
who had had a similar problem but finally got it fixed, so on his
suggestions I:

* Went to Start -> Accessories -> Administrative Tools -> Services, and
disabled System Restore from starting.
* Booted in Safe Mode and used the cacls command to grant my own username
access to the 'System Volume Information' folder in my C drive.
* Rebooted in normal mode, opened the 'System Volume Information' folder and
deleted everything inside
it
* Went back to Start -> Accessories -> Administrative Tools -> Services and
chose to enable System Restore, which worked for this poster, but not for
me.

If I try to enable System Restore I get an error message saying 'Access
Denied'.

Can anyone come up with any suggestions as to what might be going wrong -
I'm at my wits end!!

Thanks!

Steve

 

[Pastor Frank]

Disk manufacturers will tell you, that installing large jumps in disk
capacity, may not produce 100% compatibility. If your machine came with 20gb
you are probably OK up to 60gb. After that you are taking chances.
I.e. Notebook manufacturers / service depots will insist in ordering a
drive of the same capacity as the original, to replace an HD in one of their
older lab-tops, even if it has to be custom built, taking months to get, and
at high cost, for the above reason. Non-proprietary configuration Desk-tops
may be somewhat more lenient, but they have their limits also, even if an
updated BIOS recognises the disk size.

 

[frodo]

Be sure you are an administrator, then:

1) Set the Sysem Restore Service to startup-type: Automatic. Reboot

2) Open control panel, click System, choose System Restore tab.
Check the box that says "Turn off system restore on all drives".
[This will wipe out all saved restore points, but in your case they're
no good to you anyway].

3) Then Uncheck the above box. All drives listed below should now read
"Monitoring" in the status column.

[If not, then turn it off again, reboot and then try turning it back
on. It Should come up. If not, turn it off, reboot into Safe Mode, and
delete the [hidden] System Volume Information folder at the root of each
volume. You may need to take ownership of that folder before you can
delete it.

4) Select each drive below, click settings and either disable it on that
drive, or set it to a reasonable size. It defaults to 12%, which can be
huge. About 1/2 to 1 gig is plenty.

 

[frodo]

one more point: you're getting Access Denied because you made the Sys Vol
Info folder YOURS; you should delete it in safe mode, then the SYSTEM will
remake it under ITS account; on ntfs that folder is owned by the SYSTEM,
not by any user. That should get ya going again.

 

[Gordon]

Be sure you are an administrator, then:

snip

As the subject of this post gives NO indication of the problem, PLEASE QUOTE
the post you are replying to so we can all follow the thread.

Thank you

 

[Gordon]

one more point: you're getting Access Denied because you made the Sys Vol
Info folder YOURS; you should delete it in safe mode, then the SYSTEM will
remake it under ITS account; on ntfs that folder is owned by the SYSTEM,
not by any user. That should get ya going again.

As the subject of this post gives NO indication of the problem, PLEASE QUOTE
the post you are replying to so we can all follow the thread.

Thank you

 

[Steve Lawrence]

Hi Frodo

Thank you *so* much - that worked, I deleted the folder, rebooted and hey
presto it was working straight away. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

Steve