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
    2016-10-11T08:49:13+00:00

    Happening with me on windows 10.I have no tune up utilities installed.Also both the mentioned services volume shadow and microsoft shadow provider are set to automatically run.Still it wont work.Someone help pease

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-09-17T23:54:13+00:00

    It is now the year 2016, and the TURBO MODE of TuneUP utilities is still causing this problem.  

    I am not sure how it got turn on, probably by accident, but system restore on Windows 10 started giving code 

    0x81000203.

    I finally found this thread and looked at TUNE UP.  indeed, 'turbo mode' was turned on.  I turned it off, rebooted, and now system restore works as it always had.  

    thanks!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-07-01T13:07:26+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.

    Five years later and your solution worked for me. After switching off Turbo mode, works perfect.

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