Cannot create restore point

I have no clue as to what minuscule thing, you haven't set properly. I honestly don't even try to remember all the hoops MS makes us jump through. But... You can do an In-Place upgrade that will FIX Windows problems and leave your programs and files untouched.

Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade



Here is the short version of the In-place upgrade tutorial...

DISABLE non-Microsoft:
a) antivirus software
b) firewall software
c) drive encryption software

Make a full OS backup with a program like Macrium Reflect (free)
Macrium Software | Macrium Reflect Free

Go here and get the Media Creation Tool and save it to your desktop.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...load/windows10

RUN the Media Creation Tool and use it to: Create an ISO image... save IT to your desktop.
This will be the latest version of the ISO image.
The ISO must be created in the same language as you are using in Windows, to be able to keep your Programs and Files.

Right click the ISO image and choose: MOUNT
Open File Explorer and you will see a new drive letter. It will "look" like a DVD optical drive.
Double click the new drive letter to open it.
Find setup.exe and double click it to start the in-place upgrade.

Choose the Keep personal files and apps option.

After it's all done... to UNmount the ISO image, right click the new drive letter and choose: EJECT.


The ONLY thing you will lose is some of your personalizations. Your programs and data will be intact.

Mike72 said:

Thank you for your reply, if I can't resolve this I will resort to that.

You may want to look through this and see if there is something you haven't tried yet.
Create System Restore Point in Windows 10

The value of restore points is arguable, given the amount of disk space taken up by (accumulated) restore point files. Additionally, there is a frequent serious misconception that this process will recover deleted user files.

System-wise, the above suggested in-place upgrade is all that's needed. This, coupled with regular imaging of the system (Macrium Reflect and/or AOMEI Backupper - both freeware) is all that's needed. Forget abour system restore points and recover the disk space by deleting old restore point files.

idgat said:

The value of restore points is arguable, given the amount of disk space taken up by (accumulated) restore point files. Additionally, there is a frequent serious misconception that this process will recover deleted user files.

System-wise, the above suggested in-place upgrade is all that's needed. This, coupled with regular imaging of the system (Macrium Reflect and/or AOMEI Backupper - both freeware) is all that's needed. Forget abour system restore points and recover the disk space by deleting old restore point files.

But the Ops issue is related to a VSS service issue

"A volume Shadow Copy Service component encountered an unexpected error"


Reflect needs VSS to be working, and by default so does AOMEI Backupper, but I think AOMEI will allow an alternative to VSS - no idea if this is available on free version.

This articles gives advice on how to fix VSS issues.

Troubleshooting Microsoft VSS errors - KnowledgeBase - Macrium Reflect Knowledgebase

Also, restore points work differently from imaging files. If you use a restore point, user data is not affected.

With image restores, you can lose data since last image backup upon an image restore, and caution is needed to prevent that e.g. storing data on a separate drive not backed up in same image file.

Whilst I never use restore points, preferring image backups, it is important that people understand the differences, and I try to always to warn people about possibility if losing data if not careful.

Two ways to repair VSS:

a. Use Macrium Reflect's VSS repair tool:


b. Choose only the appropriate repair in Tweaking.com's free repair tool, observing its guidance carefully.

More if you simply search for the error number:

- generally or specifically on tenforums.


If you spend an hour or so trying this and still have no luck, then proceed as recommended above to an in-place upgrade repair install- which takes an hour or so perhaps.

N.B. As you chose to ignore the forum prompts to specify your build number, I will simply assume you're using the latest major build of Win 10. If not, using the MS media creation tool to download an iso file will lead to a build upgrade.

And thank you for your - er- reply.

Kindly see my previous post.

In addiiton, and prior to that, as you presumably know nothing of the state of the PC
Check the disk(s) - Hard Disk Sentinel

Noted you've run chkdsk & SFC /SCANNOW.