Windows 10: You must enable system protection on this drive – System Restore error

If when you try to perform System Restore in Windows 10/8/7, and you receive the You must enable system protection on this drive status error […]

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System Protection - Restore "drive"

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For which drive did you enable the system protection?



System protection feature allows you to restore or undo the changes without having to use the Windows installation media. It uses restore points to restore the computer to the state when the restore point was created.
By default, System protection is enabled for the drive where Windows is installed, but you can enable it for other drives as well.

Go to settings->System->Storage->System drive->System and reserved.

You will see if there are any restore points on the system partition.



To delete the restore points, go to system protection settings.

Go to System protection.

Select the drive and click on ‘Configure.

Click on ‘Delete’ to delete all restore points.

Choose ‘Continue’ to remove all restore points on the selected drive.

I wouldn’t recommend deleting restore points for your system drive.



Hope it helps.



Peer Samie

Microsoft Community-Moderator

 

System Protection - Restore "drive"

In system protection, it shows 2 drives in the list. One of them being C: the other being Restore with a folder icon.

It was the Restore "drive" that I enabled it on and then disabled it; which is when I received the warning of deleting the restore points and the amount of space being used was cleared from 5G to zero when I disabled it.

 

System Restore error

The "mstdc.log" file is a transaction log file of Windows operating systems. Since it is a log file, it should not affect the performance of your system. Also, the error that you're getting with that log file is not connected to the System Restore error
code you're seeing in the Event Viewer. If you want to make sure that System Restore is functioning properly, you can also disable and re-enable it. Please take note that by disabling System Restore, you lose your restore points. To disable and re-enable System
Restore, follow these steps:

• Access System Restore by searching using Cortana.
• Click Configure.
• Choose Disable system protection.
• Click Apply, and the press OK.
• Click Configure again.
• Choose Turn on system protection.
• Click Apply, and the press OK.
• Click OK.

If you do not encounter any issues while doing the steps above, it means that System Restore is working properly.

Let us know how it goes.