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xp System Restore exception

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jayR

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I replaced my 40 GB Maxtor with an 80GB Seagate using the Seagate utility. My old drive had 5 partitions the new one has 4. I told the Seagate utility that I would be using the new drive for booting and keeping the old drive in the system. It seemed to work ok. Now I want to remove the old drive but when I do System restore gives this error message:

RUNDLL:
An exception occured while trying to run "shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL
"C:\WINDOWS\System32\sysdm.cpl",System"

System Restore is fine if I put the old drive back in. I assume the problem is it is looking for the partitions on the drive I took out. How do I tell it they are gone? Other than that the system appears to be working fine without the old drive.
 
I'll bet if you disable System Restore then reboot and enable it again that you'll be all set. It probably keeps some type of log files that are confused due to the removal of the drive.

Just a guess.
 
Originally posted by: jayR
I replaced my 40 GB Maxtor with an 80GB Seagate using the Seagate utility. My old drive had 5 partitions the new one has 4. I told the Seagate utility that I would be using the new drive for booting and keeping the old drive in the system. It seemed to work ok. Now I want to remove the old drive but when I do System restore gives this error message:

RUNDLL:
An exception occured while trying to run "shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL
"C:\WINDOWS\System32\sysdm.cpl",System"

System Restore is fine if I put the old drive back in. I assume the problem is it is looking for the partitions on the drive I took out. How do I tell it they are gone? Other than that the system appears to be working fine without the old drive.
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Pop out the old drive.
Boot with the new drive.
Turn on the options to show all hidden and system files in Windows Explorer.
Go to C:\windows\infs and right-click sr.inf. Click Install. Have your CD handy if it prompts you. Reboot when complete.

Did that change anything? 🙂
 
boomerang - thanks for the try but the popup occured as soon I clicked on the System Restore tab. When I clicked OK on the popup the whole System Restore window would disappear.


Thanks dclive. I owe you one.
 
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