System RESTORE won't work
I have two problems that I know of -- Can't play a DVD movie and System
RESTORE won't work. Everything else about my computer seems to work OK.
Am using Troubleshoot System Restore “Restore Point Failures†in Windows XP
Bert Kinney Windows XP Shell/User
CPU : AMD Athlon 64 Processor 2800+ 1800 MHz
Bus Speed : 200 MHz
Motherboard : Shuttle FN85
System : Shuttle SN85V30
BIOS : Phoenix 6.00 PG
Memory : 767 MB
Sound : NVIDIA(R) nForce(TM) Audio
Video : NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4400
Operating System : Windows XP Professional (5.01.2600 Service Pack 2)
Did Nero clean uninstall and removed all Nero from system -- re-installed
Nero Programs
Removed and re-installed DVD player.
Nero InfoTool 3.07
Drive Information
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Drive : SONY DVD RW DRU-720A
Type : DVD±R/RW DL Recorder
Firmware Version : JY08
Buffer Size : 2 MB
Date : ?
Serial Number
Vendor Specific : Dec12 ,2005
Drive Letter : D:\
Location : 0:2
Mechanism : Tray
Read Speed : 48 X
Write Speed : 48 X
Read CD Text : Yes
Return C2 Pointers : Yes
Read CD-R : Yes
Read CD-RW : Yes
Read DVD-ROM : Yes
Read DVD-RAM : No
Read DVD-R : Yes
Read DVD-RW : Yes
Read DVD-R DL : Yes
Read DVD+R : Yes
Read DVD+RW : Yes
Read DVD+R DL : Yes
Read BD-ROM : No
Read BD-R : No
Read BD-RE : No
Read HD DVD-ROM : No
Read HD DVD-R : No
Read HD DVD-RW : No
Read HD-BURN : No
Read Digital Audio : Yes
Read CD+G : Yes
Read VideoCD : Yes
Write CD-R : Yes
Write CD-RW : Yes
Write DVD-R : Yes
Write DVD-RW : Yes
Write DVD-R DL : No
Write DVD+R : Yes
Write DVD+RW : Yes
Write DVD+R DL : Yes
Write DVD-RAM : No
Write BD-R : No
Write BD-RE : No
Write HD DVD-R : No
Write HD DVD-RW : No
Write HD-BURN-R : No
Write HD-BURN-RW : No
Buffer Underrun Protection : Yes
Mount Rainier : No
SolidBurn : No
Modes : Packet, TAO, DAO, SAO, RAW SAO, RAW DAO, RAW
SAO 16, RAW SAO 96, RAW DAO 16, RAW DAO 96
Ran McCafee virus scan nothing found on system
Ran AdAware scan - nothing found on system
Ran Windows Defender scan - no unwanted or harmful software detected
Removed realplayer from system
Ran Windows Update -- nothing available as system was up to date.
rebooted system and tried System Restore again -- same message -- couldn't
restore to May 31 2007 because "no changes have occurred on the computer".
Still no DVD -- no auto run when right clicking drive, and no DVD play
opportunity on the play menu of media player
Event Viewer
Event Type: Information
Event Source: SRService
Event Category: None
Event ID: 111
Date: 7/29/2007
Time: 3:37:14 PM
User: N/A
Computer: RYAN_DVD_BURNER
Description:
A restoration to "Software Distribution Service 2.0" restore point failed.
No changes have been made to the system.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Details
Product: Windows Operating System
ID: 111
Source: SRService
Version: 5.2
Symbolic Name: EVMSG_RESTORE_FAILED
Message: A restoration to "%1" restore point failed. No changes have been
made to the system.
cmd /k net start
System Restore Services and Remote Procedure Call (RPC) are running
diskmgmt.msc
partition - basic file system-NTFS status - healthy capacity - 490.4GB
free space 119.95GB
Ran RESTORE in SAFE Mode -- same results with message that the system could
not be restored to 31May2007 because there had been no changes to the
computer. ??
Event Type: Information
Event Source: SRService
Event Category: None
Event ID: 111
Date: 7/29/2007
Time: 6:50:59 PM
User: N/A
Computer: RYAN_DVD_BURNER
Description:
A restoration to "Software Distribution Service 2.0" restore point failed.
No changes have been made to the system.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Any suggestions where this novice might look next?
Re: System RESTORE won't work
I had the same problem, then ran across an article that mentioned disabling
your anti-virus program before running system restore.
I use Norton, disabled it, and System Restore worked like it was supposed
to ... you might want to give that a try
Good Luck,
Dave.
Re: System RESTORE won't work
Hi Ben,
Take a look in Event Viewer for any "sr" and "srservice" that may be there
and post them here.
Event Viewer Help:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/source.html
Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org
ben wrote:
> After doing a system restore recently, system restore crashed on reboot
> and would not load again. For some reason I started loading MS Excel
> which also strangely decided to crash without loading. After the second
> time, Excel went into some mode to fix itself (which had the harddrive
> grinding away for a while) and in the process also fixed system restore.
> I have no idea what it did.
Re: System RESTORE won't work
Event Type: Information
Event Source: SRService
Event Category: None
Event ID: 110
Date: 7/31/2007
Time: 2:59:32 PM
User: N/A
Computer: ALTMAN_FAMILY
Description:
A restoration to "before intel uninstall/reinstall" restore point occurred
successfully.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Event Type: Information
Event Source: SRService
Event Category: None
Event ID: 110
Date: 7/31/2007
Time: 10:02:27 AM
User: N/A
Computer: ALTMAN_FAMILY
Description:
A restoration to "Printer Driver Send To Microsoft OneNote Driver Installed"
restore point occurred successfully.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Event Type: Information
Event Source: SRService
Event Category: None
Event ID: 110
Date: 7/31/2007
Time: 9:14:17 AM
User: N/A
Computer: ALTMAN_FAMILY
Description:
A restoration to "After vscans" restore point occurred successfully.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Event Type: Information
Event Source: SRService
Event Category: None
Event ID: 110
Date: 7/30/2007
Time: 9:12:53 PM
User: N/A
Computer: ALTMAN_FAMILY
Description:
A restoration to "before intel proset mod" restore point occurred successfully.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Event Type: Information
Event Source: SRService
Event Category: None
Event ID: 110
Date: 7/30/2007
Time: 8:26:32 PM
User: N/A
Computer: ALTMAN_FAMILY
Description:
A restoration to "Restore Operation" restore point occurred successfully.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Event Type: Information
Event Source: SRService
Event Category: None
Event ID: 110
Date: 7/30/2007
Time: 7:47:09 PM
User: N/A
Computer: ALTMAN_FAMILY
Description:
A restoration to "before intel proset mod" restore point occurred successfully.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Event Type: Information
Event Source: SRService
Event Category: None
Event ID: 110
Date: 7/30/2007
Time: 6:04:35 PM
User: N/A
Computer: ALTMAN_FAMILY
Description:
A restoration to "before intel uninstall/reinstall" restore point occurred
successfully.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Bert Kinney wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> Take a look in Event Viewer for any "sr" and "srservice" that may be
> there and post them here.
>
> Event Viewer Help:
> http://bertk.mvps.org/html/source.html
>
> Regards,
> Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
> http://bertk.mvps.org
> Member: http://dts-l.org
>
> ben wrote:
>> After doing a system restore recently, system restore crashed on
>> reboot and would not load again. For some reason I started loading MS
>> Excel which also strangely decided to crash without loading. After the
>> second time, Excel went into some mode to fix itself (which had the
>> harddrive grinding away for a while) and in the process also fixed
>> system restore. I have no idea what it did.
Re: System RESTORE won't work
Hi Ben,
Theres no indication of a problem with System Restore in these events.
Do a test to confirm System Restore is functioning correctly.
Create a new restore point named TEST.
Create a new shortcut on the desktop and point it to My Computer or any
other file of your choice and name it TEST.
Now restore to the Test restore point.
The system will now reboot, and you will receive a message if the restore
was successful, and the Test shortcut on the desktop will be gone.
