Windows 7 - VSS SERVICE ERROR when i tried to restore my system

Dear users,

Here is the kind of error that I got when i tried to restore my system:
0x80042302

in the event journal, I found a lot of errors listed for the VSS, as for exemple:

and the internet link:
Event ID 22 ? VSS Shadow Copy Creation and Storage Space Availability

but I am not more advanced... any ideas how to solve this?

thank you in advance for any help...

Type cmd in the start menu, then right click and select run as administrator, or press Ctrl+Shift+Enter. Finally enter vssadmin list writers and vssadmin list shadowstorage - what is the output?

Frostmourne,

I hope you don't mind, but I am having problems with back up also, and ran the commands you asked for. I cannot even set up my back up because I get the same error - not enough space for shadow copy. I don't know if you needed a screen shot or just the data - the writers that failed (timed out) were: 1. System Writer,2. MSSearch Service Writer and 3. WMI Writer. Storage out put as follows (tho I shld have nothing there as I never was able to back anything up):
storage used 9.538 G(0%)
storage allocated 9.976 G(0%)
max storage 10G (0%)

Any help would be appreciated.

Hi Frostmourne,

Here are the results.
vssadmin list writers:
C:\Windows\system32>vssadmin list writers
vssadmin 1.1 - Outil ligne de commande d'administration du service
de cliché instantané de volume
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.
Error: Un composant du service VSS a rencontré une erreur inattendue.
Consultez le journal d'événements d'applications pour plus d'informations.

vssadmin list shadowstorage:
C:\Windows\system32>vssadmin list shadowstorage
vssadmin 1.1 - Outil ligne de commande d'administration du service
de cliché instantané de volume
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.
Error: Un composant du service VSS a rencontré une erreur inattendue.
Consultez le journal d'événements d'applications pour plus d'informations.

doesn't help a lot... any idea?

Hi Mars1,

Check whether Volume Shadow Copy Service, System Restore Service is started and Set to Automatic

Type Services in Start Menu Search Box, hit Enter. Make sure that the Volume Shadow Copy Service is Running and set on Automatic. If the Status of System Restore Service is not Started, Start it. Also set it on Automatic if it is not. A reboot may be required. Reconfirm again, and now try.

Also i'm attaching a bat file which will re-register all the dll related to VSS

Attachment: VSS.bat

Make sure once to download the Attachment Right Click and Run as Administrator

Hope this helps

Hi Capt.Jack Sparrow!

I executed your batch, here is the output and errors:
then I have the following error:
- inside "swprv.dll", loaded but DLLRegisterServer failed 0x80070715
- inside "eventclc.dll", loaded but DLLRegisterServer failed 0x80070715
- inside "es.dll", loaded but entry point DLLRegisterServer can not be found - "please check that "es.dll" is a DLL file or OCX valid and retry"
then:
then error:
- "msxml.dll" load failure - "chek that the binary file is saved at the described access path and then debug for further issues of files .dll binary or independant - specific file is untraceable"
- "vssui.dll" load failure - "chek that the binary file is saved at the described access path and then debug for further issues of files .dll binary or independant - specific file is untraceable"
then
then error:
- "msxml4.dll" load failure - "chek that the binary file is saved at the described access path and then debug for further issues of files .dll binary or independant - specific file is untraceable"

and then the .bat is finished.

Actually, i am exploring the services to find the french corespondant of your Volume Shadow Copy and System Restore...

Inside services i found the following equivalent name (not sure they are the right), and my modifications:
-DRSVC from Manual to Auomatic
-VSSVC from Mnual to Automatic
I reboot now...

Once to start those services reboot then try to Run the Bat file again becuase the error when you ran the bat file was "Service Provider snapshot of Microsoft software is not running" Gave that a shot and see whether it runs successfully this time

Hope this helps

ok... I have rebooted... restart the .bat (same errors as before exept for the services running)... then reboot again... I tried to start system restore, and get again a 0x80042302 error....

I am stucked with this problem....

what should I do now? any other ideas?

I guess the next steps you could do would to Go to Start > under search type cmd Right Click and Run as administrator then type SFC/ SCANNOW then try to run. Still Fails then you perform a Repair Install