System Restore Problems after replacing HD - Can Anyone Help?!

[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 C drive 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

 

[Steve Lawrence]

Oops! That should read "Opened the "System Volume Information" folder, and
deleted everything inside it" not the C drive!!!