Hi,
I just tried your advice on my windows 32 bit vista home pc. To no avail !
1/ I created a restoration point (according to the message shown) and a registry backup with the fallback method (due to slow backup answer time)
2/ I ran a repair of the VSS shadow copy and the MS Installer only.
Log-vss.txt provides the following explanation :
VSHADOW.EXE 3.0 - Volume Shadow Copy sample client.
Copyright (C) 2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
(Option: Generate SETVAR script 'C:\Windows\temp\vss-setvar.bat')
(Option: Execute binary/script after shadow creation 'C:\Windows\temp\vss.bat')
(Option: Create shadow copy set)
(Gathering writer metadata...)
(Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish...)
Error during the last asynchronous operation.
- Returned HRESULT = 0x8000ffff
- Error text: E_UNEXPECTED
- Please re-run VSHADOW.EXE with the /tracing option to get more details
So, I guess who have some good advice
ftr