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Discussions tagged with farstone on WindowsForum.com focus on troubleshooting issues with Farstone Total Recovery backup software, particularly errors related to Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) initialization. Users report failures when attempting disaster recovery backups, with error messages suggesting disk checks or VSS service configuration. Common advice includes verifying that the Volume Shadow Copy service is set to Automatic and running, as well as running Chkdsk. The tag covers practical solutions for resolving backup failures in Windows environments.
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Windows 8 VSS cannot be initialized for backup
Hi, I try to make a disaster recovery backup by Farstone Total Recovery. It consistently fails to start, the error message says that it cannot initialize VSS. It also says to run Chkdsk then try again, but then it's the same. I've checked that Volume Shadow Copy among the Services is set to...- Georgey
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- backup chkdsk error farstone recovery services shadow copy vss windows
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