System Restore Will Not Restore

D

DL

Theres no point in using system restore on your recovery partition, since
you should not be writing anything to the recovery partition
 
M

Mike

I use Macrium Reflect. They came out with a new release about a month ago.
I use image backups. Wonder if the update could have cause a problem. Other
than that, I have reviewed all of my installations and can't see where any
caused the problem.
 
D

Dave T.

M

Mike

The only backup programs I've had are Windows Backup (comes built in to
Vista) and Macrium Reflect. I use Macrium Reflect to make images of my C:
drive.
I don't use Windows Backup which I believe doesn't use VSS. I updated
Macrium with a new release recently. I contacted them and they said there
program does not use Shadow Storage, VSS or COM+

Thanks for the observation, Dave T.
 
M

Mike

I've checked program additions and everything I can think of. Tested
restoring in safe mode and it goes through the effort but comes back with
cannot restore, choose another restore point message.

I use Macrium too, but grrrr at the thought of having to use the emergency
restore disk and to have to restore the entire system.
 
M

Mike

I've narrowed it down to a missing SHADOW COPY OPTIMIZATION WRITER in VSS.
Does Anyone know how to get it back? Vista Home Premium SP2
 
M

Miles

Norton's self preservation setting can cause this error message.
If you have Norton, you need to turn off that option in order
to run system restore.
Dick

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