System Restore Not working on Ultimate Edition

[wipcguy]

This is an older thread but I read through the whole thing and didn't see any similar info so I thought I'd add to the fray:

When trying to create a system restore point, I bombed with the same error message. Following what Ms. Zoeller was indicating, I checked my disk mgmt and found my externally attached USB disk was there, but not recognized with a drive letter assigned. I unplugged the drive, and tried to create a restore point again, and it worked.

My only concern here is does this mean I'm always going to have to unplug my USB external drive(s) when I want to run system restore? (-too there's the automatic restore points).

[pgn674]

I too was getting error 0x80073bc3 from ASR Writer in SPP and VSS's logs in Event Viewer when I was trying to do a backup, for me on Windows 7. I ended up having to change my BIOS's HDD boot order, so that my Windows disk is first, and the disk I'm backing up to is second. It used to be that a third disk, with an EXT3 volume on it, was first in the BIOS's boot order. I also had to fix GRUB afterwards. I have the most recent BIOS for my motherboard. I've also uninstalled an installable EXT3 file system driver I had, but I don't know if that did anything.