error on windows 10 restore (0x81000203

SIW2 said:

You can add it in.

export the key from your other machine. Then import it into the one that doesn't work.

Sorry I've never done anything like that before and don't know how to do it. You know what that say it's easy when you know how

on the good machine, rt click the {71a27cdd-812a-11d0-bec7-08002be2092f}key and select export.

It will ask where to, so browse to the desktop and export it there.

Close regedit.

Now you will see a file with a .reg extension on the desktop.


Copy that to a usb stick.

Plug the usb into your non working system.


Rt click on the reg file and select Merge. It will ask you to 0k it. Say yes.

Thank for that.Is it not best to backup the registry first somehow? I'm concerned about it going wrong.

You can export the {71a27cdd-812a-11d0-bec7-08002be2092f} key from the non working system first, if it makes you feel better

dalchina said:

This error number appears to be known. See e.g.
https://www.howtoedge.com/fix-system...on-windows-10/
[SOLVED] - System Restore not working: error 0x81000203 - Kaspersky Removal Tool | Sysnative Forums

Thanks for that but if you look in my earlier post you will see the link to fixing this error. I've done all of the fixes in that link except the registry edit. None of the other fixes worked and I can see nothing new in the link you posted.

I've yet to try the reg edit.

dalchina said:

Ok, in that case, if that doesn't help, I'm sure you're capable of finding more such as there are plenty of similar results, also mentioning possible impact of 3rd party utilities amongst others.

I've done the reg edit but I can't reboot at the moment because I'm doing a large backup of files to a USB drive.
I did remove a few 3rd party utilities like Gigabyte ones that seemed pointless for me.Plus I did try it with the security software turned off but no luck.
Fingers crossed on the reboot !

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Please list any of these installed non-Microsoft software:
a) antivirus
b) firewall
c) drive encryption
d) backup imaging

Many thanks to all that tried to help me with this error.

Good news! After doing the reg edit by adding the correct key, on reboot I can now get into recovery without the error

Guess I will never know why this happened but I don't really care now it's working fine.

I hope this thread may help others in the future with the same problem.