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Shadow Copy Creation Failure (0x81000101) VSS running
About two weeks ago an internal program from HP warned me about an imminent HDD failure and advised me to make a backup. From that point on the system has been running slower than normally.
Today i got an external HDD and tried to create a system backup image, and subsequently a normal backup. Both operations failed with the Error message:
"The creation of a shadow copy has timed out. Try this operation again. (0x81000101)"
I checked other solutions and have determined that most of the solutions don't apply since the Volume Shadow Service is up and running. I have no previous restoration points that could be corrupt, and the volume i am trying to do the back up on is compatible with VSS.
Currently i am completely at a loss about what could cause the program to fail at the same point in the process all the time.
I am hesitant to assume that it is a simple I/O error, because the HDD does not seem to have failed yet, since i can perform all tasks (albeit slowly) and access any file.