Remote Storage Service wont start

I posted an issue yesterday with Backup not starting.
Now I believe the underlying problem to be the Remote Storage Service,
which won't start.
It was set to Automatic but started and stopped immediately. I set it
to Manual (like another machine here) but it still won't start.
I compared the dlls between the two machines and they appear the same.

I believe there is a database (of devices?), which may be the problem.
In Control Panel * Admin * Computer Management, I can't open the tree
Removeable Storage under Storage. It just hangs.

My next thought is to try to fix that. Any ideas?
BTW, do removeable USB devices cause these problems?

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Patrick Moloney

Patrick
Wed Jan 09 07:09:14 PST 2008

Patrick Moloney wrote:

> I posted an issue yesterday with Backup not starting.
> Now I believe the underlying problem to be the Remote Storage Service,
> which won't start.
> It was set to Automatic but started and stopped immediately. I set it
> to Manual (like another machine here) but it still won't start.
> I compared the dlls between the two machines and they appear the same.
>
> I believe there is a database (of devices?), which may be the problem.
> In Control Panel * Admin * Computer Management, I can't open the tree
> Removeable Storage under Storage. It just hangs.
>
> My next thought is to try to fix that. Any ideas?
> BTW, do removeable USB devices cause these problems?

Fixed my own problem. Followed KB235032 Problems with a Damaged
Removable Storage Manager. Although this states it applies only to
W2000 it worked on my XP Pro system. And it worked although there was
no Export folder from a previous Backup. This fix allowed Remote
Storage Service to start, and that fixed the original problem that
Backup would not start.


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Patrick Moloney