Vista - Unable to run system restore

Hi There,

Found this neat little forum for 64-bit Vista, I'm still quite a bit new too it but maybe you can help. Right now, I get this error message if I try to do a system restore:

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/8272/errorsp0.jpg

A little background that may or may not have anything to do with it (but was the only thing I can think of which may have initially caused it) was that I had used Acronis to combine several partitions with my existing Vista drive as I decided I wanted to move over to Vista more fully and have more space available there.

I didn't do this in Vista, I had dual-booted into XP and performed a merge on 2 other partitions with the Vista drive to extend it. When I rebooted into Vista I given an error message that required me to run a repair on the system, which I did and could then access the OS. Since then, I've run into a couple quirks here and there that I assume have to do with changing the partition but I'm not sure how to resolve it outside a format/reinstall. Right now I'm running a defrag, but I don't have much hope there. Also giving Tuneup Utilities a go but this might not work either.

Thoughts?

The fix is below:

Launch SystemPropertiesProtection.exe (search for Run on the Start menu to
launch this program). Deselect the "C: Missing" checkbox and select "Local
Disk C:" to enable System Restore.