Resolving System Restore error - Error 0x800423F3 - The writer experienced a transient error

Question

System restore just stopped working, when I needed it most. (tried diff restore points... same error).

Now everytime I run system-restore, it fails with the above error message.

I cleared the event logs and retried to isolate the relevant events. I see 5 warnings and 1 info event from VSS and 1 error from System Restore.

Here's the first warning from VSS and the error
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11733224/SystemRestore-FirstWarning.txt
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11733224/SystemRestore-FirstError.txt

Tried a lot of stuff, but in vain; this error still persists.

Answer 1

Fixed this with the help of the info at http://www.winvistaclub.com/t89.html

Boot into Safe Mode without networking and open a command prompt as administrator.
Now Type net stop winmgmt and hit Enter. This will stop the Windows Management Instrumentation Service
Next go to C:\Windows\System32\wbem and rename the repository folder to repositoryold
Restart.
Now again open a command prompt as administrator, type net stop winmgmt and hit Enter.
Next Type winmgmt /resetRepository and hit Enter.
Restart.