Solved Shadow Copy error when trying to create a restore point in Windows 7

[loninappleton]

For some time I am having the problem on Win 7 of not being able to set a restore point. The message that displays is likely familiar to this forum.

It is the Volume Shadow Copy service error followed by a long error code number.

Some process is blocking the ability to set restore. What the error message suggests to turn off processes hasn't worked or I'm not doing it right.

Please advise.

My suspicion is that I made some selection error in setup but
have no idea what could have happened.

 

[loninappleton]

Also I have not seen the Application Event log or where to find it. There is a standard number on it:

0x80042302

I will look up anything I can find on that.

 

[whs]

The VSS services are pretty shaky and if you succeed to write a few restore points, they may disappear for no obvious reason. That's why I changed to images using free Macrium. That is rock solid.

 

[loninappleton]

Are you saying this is a backup/cloning issue? That some code made by a program?
I have come back to this problem which only effects one installation I have.
What is VSS then?

Since last post I have found and loaded the Event Viewer and selected Applications.
There's some code to view in there but I don't know what it is.

If necessary I can get a screen shot out.

The viewer shows some things related to "privileges".

Is there a reversal for this in Administrator level?

 

[whs]

VSS = Volume Shadow Service

 

[loninappleton]

Volume Shadow Service.

I have downloaded but not installed Macrium. What can the program provide for this error?

Also I am not experienced with doing images as opposed to simple disk clone with Norton Ghost. Do I need a blank HD to remedy the error by making an image copy?

Is there a step by step printable sheet for this?

It's all new territory for me.

 

[whs]

This might help: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/73828-imaging-free-macrium.html?ltr=I

 

[loninappleton]

Alright, I'll look at the above and what additional questions I may have before using it.
Is there a Macrium dedicated discussion?

 

[loninappleton]

I have completed getting and burning the WinPE .iso rescue disk described above.

Space needed for any image will require setup of a separate disk. My plan to do this is to low level format a target disk with HDD Guru low level format tool (free) which I have used before. Low level is needed because of a failed operation on that target and the disk is not recognized by system.

After the low level, I would format the target using the NTFS format tool in Win7 Administrator mode to guarantee compatibility.

I'll go on to the next link though they are not described in detail. Vimeo or other streaming tutorials do not run well on this low bandwidth system.

Further advice at this point is appreciated.

 

[loninappleton]

This might help: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/73828-imaging-free-macrium.html?ltr=I

I would prefer some screen shots as is often done here at SevenForums.
Following a mouse pointer in a tiny youtube box to jangly pop music is just distracting and annoying.

Will look further for a written tutorial. And in that time will prepare an
HD which lost it's formattiing and system files on a botched clone job.
(Many details previous.)

 

[whs]

Yeah I am sorry. There is an audio problem with that video. I have tried to fix it but it does not seem to work.

 

[loninappleton]

My take on it is the problem _is_ the audio.

Plus I was never good at following the mouse pointer while 'the invisible hand' goes
through the motions. Screen shots would be better. I'm just beginning to find out where this
Macrium material is. My goal is to settle on a new backup strategy I can use all the
time.

Right now I'm in the process of a slow low level routine and will put NTFS
on the disk from Win7 administrator tools.

 

[loninappleton]

My progress is:

Completed a new low level format with the HDD Guru tool.
Loaded the adminstrative disk management routine in Win 7
and followed the wizard etc for a Simple Volume. The volume is now
recognized on system.

-> Caution here is go ahead and accept the drive letter assigned, else
it'll have to be done over.

Next I'll need some advice on how to start up Macrium. I have the ISO disk
given at a link above made and ready to use. That's as far as I am. I do not know how to request that a disk image (with none of the Shadow copy errors preventing me from doing Restores) sent to the D: drive assigned letter.

Retrieval will be a separate operation.

I'll look myself at the Macrium site for something I can print to paper. As stated elsewhere I'm not much good at following youtube animations.

 

[loninappleton]

From a tip at Microsoft on a Restore problem, one suggestion was make a Restore Point in Safe Mode.

That also failed-- same message displays.

How does Macrium (from above discussion) repair the Restore function with the VSS problem?

I have Macrium now. Found a Quick Start guide for it and have the WinPE .iso
which was given as a link earlier. Things should be ready to use.

 

[whs]

You can always run with the WinPE. Then you are independent of the quirks in your system.

 

[Layback Bear]

How much free space does the "C" partition have?

 

[loninappleton]

I am behind in answering here since notifications in mail is not going right for this thread.

The c: drive to copy is one partition on a 320Gb HD.

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Can you explain more about the WinPE disc made from the link above?

That must be used stand- alone because in my first run of Macrium it requested that a Rescue disk be made. So I did that. It appeared that it needed a rescue disk for my Biostar motherboard since it references specific Nvidia drivers from the bios.

I may seem like I'm creeping along but I worry about losing data on my
primary HD for this rig. That is a 320 Gb. The target is a 500Gb. The target is one partition empty and newly formatted using the Administrator tool in Win7
to the whole drive which 467 as the given size.

 

[whs]

Yeah right - use that rescue disc which cannot only recover images but it can also write images.

 

[loninappleton]

One more thing then I'll quit for now.

I loaded the WinPE disk .iso burned from the link given above.
Windows seemed to autoload the files on the Cd alright but then opened a dos box
at :

X:\windows\system32

and issued an error:

"a winpeshl.ini file is present but no commands were successfully launched. This could be caused
by incorrect formatting or an invalid executable name. Please consult the documentation...."

I'm confused about all these WinPE disks, one made by the link here and one made by Macrium when I ran the program.

 

[whs]

This is very strange. Apparently all DVDs are bum. Could there be a problem with your DVD burner.