System restore problem

[Wyre]

I have two Maxtor 80GB HD?s and decided to transfer everything from the main ( C ) drive to the spare one using MAXBLAST 4. The spare drive was formatted but did not contain any OS. Everything went well and I have been using the new drive for the last two weeks without any problems. OS is XPpro with SP2. Yesterday I wanted to show someone how to use the ?System Restore? feature and I was surprised to find I could not access it. Despite trying various methods I kept getting the following message:

?System restore has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry about the inconvenience?

After spending a considerable amount of time getting nowhere I decided that there must have been a file corrupted during the transfer so I reformatted the HD, installed the OS and SP2, then used MAXBLAST 4 again to transfer everything over. Before I transferred everything I checked that the newly installed OS was working correctly, including ?System Restore? , everything was perfect. The transfer was without incident and the new drive is operating as it should with the OS and programmes all working fine, except????.. ?System restore? .
Same problem, same message.
Anyone got any ideas ?
(PS System restore works fine on the other drive)
Regards
FBW

 

[ShaneDOTM]

I'm not personally all that familiar with system restore, but It sounds like there is a file that has a location in it in the system restore bit and its not finding what it wants, where it wants it.

 

[Wyre]

Thanks for the reply Shane. The files in question are sr.inf and sr.sy. I managed to find someone else that has had this problem and there doesn't seem to be a fix. I have tried various methods but it seems MAXBLAST 4 sometimes has a bit of a problem with System restore. I've Emailed Maxtor and I await their reply. In the meantime I've formatted the HD again and I may purchase one of the retail CD's, such as "Ghost" and try again.
Regards
FBW

 

[engineereeyore]

i would try acronis true image. i used to work at a computer repair center for utah state university and this was our program of choice. it can make a complete image of your hard drive while windows is running, which is pretty nice. you can create the image of your drive and then restore that image onto your new hard drive. having used it well over 100 times, i never once had a problem. the new hard drive always worked with no problems. it really is a great tool and well worth the price, which i think is about $50.

 

[Wyre]

Thanks for the tip. I will probably go with that...........
Regards
FBW

 

[thegorx]

I might tend to think that you might need to turn of system restore and clean it up
it might have problems because it now on a different drive

also if system restore was monitoring the drive you over wrote that could cause confusion as well

you might also want to look at your registry for some insight

for IDE drives

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\IDE

the HardwareID is different on each and every drive

 

[Wyre]

Thanks for that Thegorx.............
I did try that. Disabled SR in all the drives, rebooted then went through the MAXBLAST routine again. Didn't work unfortunately.
Regards
FBW