System Restore Error Code: 0x81000203

Anonymous
2009-11-24T08:06:52+00:00

When I open system restore tab from system properties where we can switch system restore on or off it says Sys restore unexpectected error occur . Cannot scan drives The error code is as above > OS is Win 7

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Anonymous
2011-05-15T09:52:22+00:00

This problem persist @ users who had instaled TuneUp Utilities 2009 / 2010 / 2011, 

TuneUp Utilities 2009 / 2010 / 2011 Turbo Mode block system protection / restore.

Which Turbo Mode is on, turn off Turbo Mode and go to Windows / Control Panel / System and Security / System Protection and these not anymore " error code 0x81000203 "

Problem fixed.

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Anonymous
2009-11-24T23:41:17+00:00

Hi svk1234,

Thanks for posting in Microsoft answers!

Check if Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider service is disabled.

This behavior is by design. Disabling System Restore will limits the ongoing usefulness of System Restore on the computer.

To re-enable, please try:

  1. Open gpedit.msc from Start Search box.
  2. Navigate to the following branch.

Computer Configuration\Administrative Template\System\System Restore.

  1. In the right pane, please configure the “Turn off system restore” policy. Please set it to Not Configured.

See the following link for similar issue : http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itprosecurity/thread/0f2eebbe-6cdf-4ecc-93af-9249b7339ec9

Hope this helped

Azeez Nadeem - Microsoft Support

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-02-24T21:18:54+00:00

    I have the same error but none of this is working.

    This started when my backups started failing, I get the error code 0x80042302 which seems to indicate that VSS is not running. I checked this service and it is set to automatic and is running. Next I went to the System Restore System Protection and I get the error 0x81000203.

    Backup is not working as system restore is not working.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-02-01T20:52:30+00:00

    Thanks for this post. Have been searching the internet for the past hour for a solution, to no avail, and then came across your answer. Sure enough, I had tune up utilities in turbo mode. Turned it off and was able to create a restore point with no errors. Cheers mate!

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-01-23T03:09:37+00:00

    yes the problem was resolved once the Turbo mode in TuneUp Utilities was disabled.thanks all for the excellent advise-mantha

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