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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Can't create Shadow Copy after full repairs v 3.9.12 - Windows Vista

« on: October 25, 2016, 10:44:57 pm »

So, I ran the bat file, and it broke the VSS again. I had to ran repair #19 (twice, actually, as the first run in safe mode did nothing, then in normal mode, ok).
I think I managed to create 3 zip files for the logs in question (those about the incident in the first place). The first two, on Oct 17 (17.10.2016) are for the two first runs of the default set of repairs. The third one is for the repair #19, immediately after.
But to be honest, I'm not very optimistic that they do contain something. Hope this helps.

Boggin, no I haven't updated to 3.9.13 yet, as I wanted to be able to reproduce comparable results in these tests. We change one thing at a time, right? 

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Can't create Shadow Copy after full repairs v 3.9.12 - Windows Vista

« on: October 23, 2016, 03:02:14 am »

Ok, here I am again,

I ran repair #4 alone, and it broke VSS. I repaired with #19, it was ok.
Then ran #5 and #7. None of them broke the VSS. So here I am now. Don't have time to test #8 and #17 now. If it's important to you, pls let me know and I'll try tomorrow.

As far as the log files are concerned, I tried with Windows Explorer, with Shadow Explorer, with Qdir. None of them can open those folders, sorry. TWR seems not creating proper log files on my machine, don't know why.

Cheers

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Can't create Shadow Copy after full repairs v 3.9.12 - Windows Vista

« on: October 21, 2016, 02:15:18 am »

1. I bet you're right, TWR log files could help, but as I said before, they seem empty (see attached). Actually, their file names don't seem correct (e.g: 17.10.2016_6.01.37-..) and I can't open them, copy them, zip them, or attach them.

2. I have a 32-bit OS Vista Home Premium with SP2

3. For the test runs you suggest, I need some time, maybe during the weekend.

Cheers

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Can't create Shadow Copy after full repairs v 3.9.12 - Windows Vista

« on: October 20, 2016, 11:56:37 pm »

The topic I mentioned is
http://www.tweaking.com/forums/index.php?topic=4097.0

I'm not sure I can help you with log files. This happened yesterday, so I have everything in my computer, but:
- In the WR\Logs folder there are 3 folders (the two full repairs I ran before the error, and the one I ran with repair 19 only, to fix it) but they seem empty. I can't open them, zip them, or attach them here.
- I run a Greek Language version of Vista, so the error events in Event Viewer are in plain greek, and they won't help you, I'm afraid. I received 5 errors: codes 34, 8193, 34, 8193, 4100.

It was TWR's first installation, no previous versions. I followed all the steps, ran in safe mode, etc. I ran default repairs (twice), did not tick or untick anything.

I'm not very experienced, so can only follow you. Please tell me how I can help and I'll do my best.

Cheers

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Can't create Shadow Copy after full repairs v 3.9.12 - Windows Vista

« on: October 20, 2016, 10:40:22 pm »

I had a situation similar to the one mentioned in topic
" Windows Repair task 04 (Register System Files) clobbering Vista VSS??"
but with version 3.9.12

Windows Vista backup could not be created and messages were the same:
"The restore point could not be created for the following reason:  Catastrophic failure (0x8000FFFF)  Please try again."

App Event Log shows "Volume Shadow Copy Service error: The VSS event class is not registered.  This will prevent any VSS writers from receiving events. This may be caused due to a setup failure or as a result of an application's installer or uninstaller."

I solved it by repeating repair 19, alone. But I'm mentioning it, since this happened with TWR v 3.9.12, whereas in quoted topic above, it seems to be solved with version 3.8.1.

Thanks