System Restore Won't Start

[SAshby3422]

My system restore service won't start.

I upgraded my system by adding a Maxtor 250 gig SATA drive to replace the older PATA drive I had.
I used the Maxblast4 application to migrate my XP Pro boot partition to the new drive, removed my old PATA drive, and things seemed to be ok until I tried to access the system restore application.

When I click on the System Restore tab in the Computer Properties, Windows XP reports "An exception has occured while trying to run C:\windows\system32\shell32.dll, control_RunDLL C:\windows\system32\sysdm.cpl,"system""

If I go to the System Restore Services Properties window and try to start the service manually it fails and reports: "Error 3: The system cannot find the path specified"

It lists the path to the executable as: "C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe -k netsvcs", and I have no problem navigating to that folder.

If I type "path" from the command prompt, "C:\WINDOWS\system32" is listed in the path statement.

Does anyone have any ideas, short of wiping the drive and reinstalling windows?

Thanks a lot!

[leroys1000]

If you have a retail XP CD,go to start/run and type sfc /scannow
in the box and click OK.
This will run the system file checker and replace any missing
system files.

[SAshby3422]

Thanks for the tip, I have already tried that, with no success.

I have run RegistryMechanic several times also.

[leroys1000]

You can run a repair install from the windows CD.
Boot to the windows CD.
When it comes to the page that says press R to enter repair
console or enter to continue,press enter.
During the installation you will come to a page with the option
to repair a previous installation.
Choose to repair.
You will probably have to reinstall your device drivers,but all files
and programs should remain intact.

[black mirror]

Originally Posted by leroys1000

You can run a repair install from the windows CD.
Boot to the windows CD.
When it comes to the page that says press R to enter repair
console or enter to continue,press enter.
During the installation you will come to a page with the option
to repair a previous installation.
Choose to repair.
You will probably have to reinstall your device drivers,but all files
and programs should remain intact.

Here is an article about recovery console

[SAshby3422]

Thanks for the replies everyone.

Running the repair option from the XP install disk did the trick, and I did have to reinstall my drivers as recommended. A few other things needed cleaning up, but nothing major.

This forum sure has been a lot of help, thanks again.

[black mirror]

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