Remote Storage Service wont start

[Patrick Moloney]

I posted an issue yesterday with Backup not starting.
Now I believe the underlying problem to be the Remote Storage Service,
which won't start.
It was set to Automatic but started and stopped immediately. I set it
to Manual (like another machine here) but it still won't start.
I compared the dlls between the two machines and they appear the same.

I believe there is a database (of devices?), which may be the problem.
In Control Panel * Admin * Computer Management, I can't open the tree
Removeable Storage under Storage. It just hangs.

My next thought is to try to fix that. Any ideas?
BTW, do removeable USB devices cause these problems?

 

[Patrick Moloney]

I posted an issue yesterday with Backup not starting.
Now I believe the underlying problem to be the Remote Storage Service,
which won't start.
It was set to Automatic but started and stopped immediately. I set it
to Manual (like another machine here) but it still won't start.
I compared the dlls between the two machines and they appear the same.

I believe there is a database (of devices?), which may be the problem.
In Control Panel * Admin * Computer Management, I can't open the tree
Removeable Storage under Storage. It just hangs.

My next thought is to try to fix that. Any ideas?
BTW, do removeable USB devices cause these problems?

Fixed my own problem. Followed KB235032 Problems with a Damaged
Removable Storage Manager. Although this states it applies only to
W2000 it worked on my XP Pro system. And it worked although there was
no Export folder from a previous Backup. This fix allowed Remote
Storage Service to start, and that fixed the original problem that
Backup would not start.