System Restore failed while restoring the registry from restore point...

I fought the log, and it appears that the log won. So this last week I had discovered several recurring errors that dated back to a failed windows update shortly after I bought my computer in Jan. I managed to reinstall the two "important" updates and clear up some annoying issues with Windows search and Indexing, and a failed SFC scan. I thought I also solved the VSS errors that were appearing, but system restore gives me a window saying;

There is no particular reason that I need to restore my computer to an earlier point, I just want system restore to work properly. I have a system image of the C: drive located on the D: drive, but I would prefer not to have to go that route. So here is some info on what I have done so far...

-I deleted all of my old restore points a few days ago while fighting with the errors in the event viewer log. I also tried disabling and then restarting system restore. All services related to VSS are running as they should. I am using a manually created restore point and it only takes up around 150 MB of my allowed 9 GB, which seems a bit small.
-I ran chkdsk r/ f/ on both drives and 0 problems or corruption found.
-SFC scan now completes and says that it has found no integrity violations in the system. I also ran a Checksur and the log reads normal.
-It is also worth noting that I have system recovery set up to run on only the C: drive and not my secondary D: storage drive. Although it is a storage drive my User folders are located there, so maybe that is part of the problem.

I did try to research this issue before posting it here and there aren't too many solved cases, and none involving two or multiple HD setups. I have plenty of space on both drives, so should I set system restore to work with both drives? In one case here, a guy solved a similar problem by paying Microsoft Support to solve what he calls a "minor glitch" via remote access. He claims he paid $49 to alleviate his frustration, and I am not above necessarily doing the same, but I would prefer to try to solve the issue myself. At the moment I don't need to use system restore points, but I don't like the idea of not having the option. From past experiences they can be pretty handy in a pinch. Any help would be greatly appreciated...

 

I have had user folders on a secondary drive with no issues to restoring to a previous point with Windows 7. What could be an issue is if you are restoring to when user folders were on c:\. I have to ask, as it does not seem stated, does it now allow you to complete a restore to the newly created restore point?

 

Yeah, I don't think the user folders being located on the D: drive is the culprit. It is something more complicated than that. I bought a new external HD and did a system image of both drives and backed up my user folders in Windows Backup. I created another thread about this issue in the Sager/Clevo forum and was told to contact my reseller before forking out anything to Microsoft. I am sure there is a solution, but the real question is who will fix it and what will it cost me in terms of time and energy.

 

I am not sure, for years I did, with HDD's, the primary as system restore with the secondary drive for all my user stuff. When I went to primary SSD then I stopped the system restore and just imaged to the secondary drive c:\ and then all users to the secondary drive as well. Then external backups of the data on the secondary drive.

I did this as with the SF2 drives I had to occasionally do a secure erase of the SSD. If I remember correctly in doing a restore from image it either got rid of or corrupted prior system restore so you had to rebuild system restore from the point of reimage...................

 

Oppssss.......I had almost the same problem "SYSTEM RESTORE FAILED WHILE RESTORING THE REGISTRY FROM THE RESTORE POINT. AN UNSPECIFIED ERROR OCCURRED DURING SYSTEM RESTORE (0x800703f9) But I have no system image to build up the system again. so what to do!!!