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Volume Shadow Copy
« on: February 27, 2013, 08:43:37 am »
I'm running Vista. I tried running a full back up, but getting "Catastrophic Failure 0x8000FFFF, Shadow Copy couldn't be created.". Well almost all of the fixes I have found say to set Volume Shadow Copy to Automatic. Well, I can't find Volume Shadow Copy anywhere on my computer or any of the aliases I fund for it.  I tried Teaking.com's all in one and VSS repair program, but neither helped. I really need help.
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Re: Volume Shadow Copy
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2013, 12:32:23 pm »
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Re: Volume Shadow Copy
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2013, 05:17:00 am »
None of those helped. I'm really at a loss here.
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Re: Volume Shadow Copy
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2013, 06:00:09 pm »
OPen a cmd.exe window and you can use vssadmin to view any shadow copies and the writers. Lets see what it gives us :-)

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Re: Volume Shadow Copy
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2013, 11:22:16 am »
Received Error: Invalid Command

Commands Supported
List Providers             List registered volume shadow copy providers
List Shadows             List existing volume shadow copies
List ShadowStorage  List volume shadow copy storage associations
List Volumes              List volumes eligible for shadow copies
List Writers                List subscribed volume shadow copy writers
Resize ShadowStorage     Resize a volume shadow copy storage associations


Sorry I'm a computer novice. I don't know how to copy the screen to here. But that is everything that is there.
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Re: Volume Shadow Copy
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2013, 12:08:17 pm »
You do a screen shot by hitting the prtscn key on your keyboard, open paint, go to edit and past, then save it as a jpg.

Do these and get a screen shot of each.

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Re: Volume Shadow Copy
« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2013, 06:45:48 pm »
What am I doing wrong? BTW thanks for showing me something my daughters don't even know how to do.  lol
Here are the 2 screen shots.
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Re: Volume Shadow Copy
« Reply #7 on: March 02, 2013, 01:25:09 pm »
You  have to put the whole command like I put it :wink:

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Re: Volume Shadow Copy
« Reply #8 on: March 02, 2013, 04:11:15 pm »
Sorry about that. Here's what I got.
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Re: Volume Shadow Copy
« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2013, 10:00:42 pm »
OK apply this reg file and reboot then try those commands again :wink:

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Re: Volume Shadow Copy
« Reply #10 on: March 04, 2013, 12:52:04 pm »
I went ahead and ran what you sent. Computer became stuck on configuring an update 3 of 3. Wouldn't repair or just reboot. Had to restore. Now it's say there a problem with the configuration and won't load vista at all. Just tells me to turn off the computer.
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Re: Volume Shadow Copy
« Reply #11 on: March 04, 2013, 12:58:52 pm »
That reg file was nothing more than the vss service reg keys. Shouldn't have done anything with updates.

When vista gets stuck at the installing updates 3 of 3 (VERY common bug in Vista) You can fix it by simply deleting one file called pending.xml

Still doing a system restore should have worked as well. Did vista try to install updates when you rebooted?

Are you able to get into safe mode at all? If not go to the recovery console, open a command window and put this in

del C:\Windows\winsxs\pending.xml

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Re: Volume Shadow Copy
« Reply #12 on: March 05, 2013, 04:14:38 am »
Ok. My computer will not let me go to safe mode, any F8 functions either. Window pops up saying System Configuration Error (Code Purple) & tells me to turn off the computer.
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Re: Volume Shadow Copy
« Reply #13 on: March 05, 2013, 10:35:50 am »
Code purple???

Any way you can take a picture of the screen when you get that with your phone and post it for me?

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Re: Volume Shadow Copy
« Reply #14 on: March 05, 2013, 11:31:53 am »
First off, I REALLY appreciate all the help you have given me over the past few days.  I have learned a lot.
Second, System Configuration Error (Code Purple) is a HP bug, whammy etc.. I found a way around it on another site. Here's the fix:
          1. When the System Configuration Error (Code Purple) pops up, hit SHIFT & F10. This pops up an administrator command prompt.
          2. Enter "chdir C:\hp\bin\CheckDMI"
          3. Then enter "rename CheckDMI.cmd CheckDMI"
          4. Enter "dir" to verify that it changed
          5. Reboot system.
I did all this and it worked.  Don't know exactly what the above actually does, but it got me around the Code Purple. As far as I know it only works for Vista.
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Re: Volume Shadow Copy
« Reply #15 on: March 05, 2013, 11:33:39 am »
Ah so code purple was an HP thing and not Windows.

Good to know :-D

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Re: Volume Shadow Copy
« Reply #16 on: March 05, 2013, 11:34:52 am »
Yep. Like I said, Thank you so much!
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Re: Volume Shadow Copy
« Reply #17 on: March 05, 2013, 11:35:41 am »
No problem :-)

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