System Restore

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Recently had a new hard drive installed and all files and os were transfered
to the new hard drive from the old drive. I have windows xp with sp2. and
everything is working great except system restore. I am unable to access
this tool, keep getting error message c:
windows\system32\shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL
c:\windows\system32\system.cpl,system. Am looking for a way to repair this
error.
 
Thanks for your quick response. I did see this answer in other posts. I did
try to reinstallsr. This did not work. Still unable to access system
restore. I did find a service folder and did a restart of system restore and
this did not work. Also all folders with sr----- I an unable to open says I
need a different program to open. Was unable to find a sr.inf folder at all.
Looked every where. Last nite did the recovery console r to repair and this
did not work. Repair the install is to advanced for me plus read it could
cause more errors. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks much, Deecedak
 
Click on the Start Button
select Run
paste the following command into the Open box

%Windir%\INF

press enter

Is the C:\WINDOWS\INF folder open and displayed?
 
Hello again and thank you for your response. The windows folder did open
and did display. Located the sr folder and right clicked to install.
However sr.sys needs xp home edition with service pack cd is needed. That is
not the cd i have. My cd is from 2001 for windows xp home edition. although
i do have sp2 installed through a download. and the i386 files are installed
cause i seen the folder. So i guess i was unable to do the install. After
that i did reboot windows and check the system restore tool and still getting
the same message. thanks again
 
Per a post IIRC further down this newsgroup, point to C:\WINDOWS\SERVICEPACKFILES\i386\ to
get SP2 System Restore modules.

JL
 
When the install asks for the sr.sys file point it to the i386 folder
on the drive. That's where the installation files are located.
 
Yes i did point to the i386 file on the hard drive to install. The Copying
Files window keeps asking for the Windows Home Edition Service Pack 2 Files
to be inserted. I do not have that Cd. Is that the Service Pack cd i can
order from Microsoft as you suggested. Your info is appreciated and I am
trying to understand this. Thank you
 
There could be more than one i386 folder on the system.

Set the system to show hidden and system folders. Go to the Control
Panel - Folder Options, and on the View tab, set the options so you can
see
hidden and system files:

Enable (check) "Display the contents of system folders"
Enable (check) "Show hidden files and folders"
Disable (uncheck) "Hide protected operating system files (recommended)"
Disable (uncheck) "hide extensions for known file types".

Go to Start
Search
All files and folder
All or part of the file name
Expand "More advanced options" and check next to the following three
options:
(check) Search system folders
(check) Search hidden files folders
(check) Search subfolders

And do a search for i386.

--
Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org

I am working on the second part of your question.
 
I followed your steps as indicated and could only find one i386 folder.
Expanding the file folders did reveal the sr.inf folder. As before the
installing files were halted because I do not have a Windows Xp Sp2 CD. I
have Windows XP with SP2 downloaded from Microsoft. I have ordered a sp2 cd
from Microsoft. Thanks for all your info.

Deecedak
 
Hi,

The files cannot be extracted from the SP2 CD.

Send me an email at (e-mail address removed) (remove the NS to reply) with
System Restore in the subject line and I will get you the files.
 
Ok, lets try this again.

During the install process it may be necessary to browse back to the
i386 folder several times.

If this does not work then place the downloaded SP2 file
(WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe) in the root of C:\ and use the
following command to extract it's contents.

C:\XP-SP2\WindowsXP-KB835935-SP2-ENU.exe -x

If you don't browse to a new location, a new i386 folder will be created
in the root of C:\ with all the SP2 files in it. I would also suggest
burning the i386 folder to a CD for save keeping.

Reinstall System Restore and browse to the new i386 folder.
 
Hi I appreciate all the time you have spent on this question. But I keep
getting asked for the windows xp sp2 cd to be inserted. Can't proceed with
anything once the sp2 cd is requested. I was thinking about deleting the
hard drive and reinstalling windows.
thanks again
 
Hi,

Let's change the SourcePath in the registry. This should force Window to
look at the i386 folder.

Open the registry by going to Start - Run and type regedit then press
enter.

Navagate to the following registry keys and locate the

SourcePath

value in the right pane and double click on it. Change the Value date to
C:\i386 then press OK.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup

It may also be necessary to change the ServicePackSourcePath in:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion
 
Thanks for all the info but you are way beyond my ability to navigate through
windows folders. Was thinking about just uninstalling sp2 and shutting off
the computer rebooting windows and see if it opens correctly. Then trying to
reinstall system restore as per your instructions. Maybe then the installing
procedure will accept my windows xp cd instead of the windows xp sp2 cd that
is asking for now. Thanks
 
Other programs became corrupt so decided to uninstall windows completely and
reinstall. Everything working fine now learned alot reading your web site
and all the other info. Thanks
 

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