Windows 10: Cannot configure system protection nor create restore point

I have Windows 10 Home (10.0.11734) on my PC, having upgraded from Windows 7. Everything is working o.k. except that I cannot create restore points, cannot configure system protection and have been unable to make an image backup. When I try to access the System Protection tab in Control Panel - System Properties, I get an 0x81000203 error and it says 'searching' under available drives, but never finds anything. Configure Settings and Create Restorepoint buttons are greyed out. I have run DISM and SFC Scannow which found no errors. VSSAdmin finds no volumes and no shadow storage. Attempts to allocate shadow storage via vssadmin resize shadowstorage fail.

Any help would be hugely appreciated.

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System Restore Points: No check points created.

Hi,

Thank you for posting on Microsoft Community. I understand the inconvenience you are facing. I will certainly help you with this.

If you’re not seeing any restore points, it might be because system protection isn’t turned on. To check:

• Press Windows key + X and click on Control Panel
  ,
• Search for Recovery, and then select Recovery.
• Click on Configure System Restore.
• Check if Configure and make sure Turn on system protection is selected.

To configure Restore point manually kindly refer to the below given link and check if it helps:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/create-a-system-restore-point



Hope this information helps. Post back with updated issue details for further help.

Thank you.

 

Cannot Create System Restore Point Because Cannot Turn On System Protection

In Control Panel/System/System Properties/System Protection, "Available Drives," all that is listed is "Searching..." No drives are located, so no System Restore point can be established.

How to fix?

I have an extensive active thread in another area of the community dealing with the failure of this PC to install the latest Windows 10 update. Prior to executing the next suggested step to fix that problem I need to create a System Restore point, so a
solution to this issue must be found before I can move forward on the major problem.

YES, I have ALREADY run the SFC Command as Administrator and the report was that everything was A-OK.

 

Creating restore points automatically; can it be done?

Hi Mark,

It's good to see that you're interested to learn more about Windows 10 System Restore. Yes! There's a way for Windows 10 to create restore points automatically. All you have to do is to create your first restore point, then when something significant happens,
such as installing a Windows Update or a new application. See the steps below to learn how:

• Search for Create a system restore point.
• Click on Configure, then choose Turn on system protection and
  OK.
  
• Once done, choose Create, then type the description for restore point.

We'll be looking forward to your feedback.