shadow copy

Hi all, I am trouble shooting a few issues with my system and these two errors are popping up continuously. Any ideas how to resolve? Event ID 8193 Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance. hr = 0x80040154, Class not registered ...

After every reboot I loose all my restore points because "the shadow copy memory was not expanded on time" (translated from german). I have Win7 Home Premium and set the available disk space for shadow copies to 100% (1TB). it also slows down the startup by more than two minutes. here's the...

Hi I have just upgraded from Vista to Win 7 Premimum on a new Toshiba laptop with 1 disk drive partionioned into C;(system) and Data drive. When attemting to run MS backup i get a error message saying VSS has failed. In the Appliction log i get the following following 4 entries (in the order in...

I am running windows 7 64 bit home edition. System restore is not working. When I clicked on it, I had no restore points. When I create one manually, It says it created it, but then I close out and go back, and it is gone. Once today, it created one and kept it for an hour or so, but then it...

I am currently using the Windows 7 RC which has been fantastic to date. My first question is: When will the full use of it expire and Secondly, When I do purchase the Retail Version, Ultimate, is there any way I can Migrate my present Registry and functional programs to the newly installed RTM...

I"m getting an error in the event log: The shadow copies of volume C: were aborted because the shadow copy storage could not grow due to a user imposed limit. Which prompts me to ask: What is this shadow copy thing? Why do I want it? What does it do FOR me? I rummaged about the Internet...

this happened with two hard disk drives. ill only talk about the one im using right now. i installed windows and some programs. i right clicked on the C partition where the OS is installed then properties. 97.9 space used 11.1 space available. Total size is 109 as you can see. thats right. I...

Hello All :) Ive been having this weird problem with system restore ever since i formatted and reinstalled Vista. Now ive upgraded to Windows 7 (new installation) and the problem still persists. If i go to system restore there are zero restore points, even though i have the option on for my...

I've been having tremendous difficulty backing up my drives. I keep getting the following atapi and volsnap source errors in event view - atapi - The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort0. volsnap - The shadow copies of volume C: were aborted because of an IO failure...

Well, first off, I've been getting some Blue Screen about once a week now. I would try and fix it myself if I could even read what the file was. I took a picture the other day. Link Removed due to 404 Error My hand was not shaky or anything, this is how it appears to me. So I know its a...

I get this message everytime I back up: The backup was not successful. The error is: Windows Backup failed while trying to read from the shadow copy on one of the volumes being backed up. Please check in the event logs for any relevant errors. (0x81000037). It's the first time I'm doing a...

So i installed W7 on my Toshiba Portege M700 a while back and i finally got around to installing all the drivers. Toshiba has a long list of W7 drivers for both x64 and x86 available for download on their website. I got bored of installing all those drivers and i just kinda reached an "eh, i'll...

This is a long message, beware. I recently installed build 7000 on my machine, but I've been having trouble with the built-in backup software. The short version of the issue is that backups of C:\ no longer work. The long version: Windows successfully creates a shadow copy, but then...

Hopefully this is an easy question to answer, but I haven't found it yet. If I check how much space is being used by my Vista account (I'm the only user) it tells me I'm using 134 GB (right-click User -> Properties), but if I actually add up all the folders under that user (there are no loose...

Dear all, Here is an interesting problem, I have lenovo Z61 laptop with 100GB disk. I have approx. 90GB working space. When i check the properties of C: drive, its shows that only 6 GB is free. I browse C: drive, mark all folders & files (show hidden files/folders option is on) and look the...

Please help me I've looked everywhere on the internet and can't find out how to fix this. I want to shrink my vista partition which should be easy, but it says because of page files and shadow copies that shrink space may be limited, I have 15 gigs free but it only would let me shrink 500 mb...