Windows 7 volsnap keeps deleting my restore points

Weltall

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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 event's XML:
Code:
<Event xmlns="[B]http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event[/B]">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="[B]volsnap[/B]" />
    <EventID Qualifiers="[B]49158[/B]">25</EventID>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="[B]2010-02-12T09:07:28.447845800Z[/B]" />
    <EventRecordID>20318</EventRecordID>
    <Channel>System</Channel>
    <Computer>Workstation-3</Computer>
    <Security /> 
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy4</Data>
    <Data>C:</Data>
    <Binary>000000000200300000000000190006C0060000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000</Binary>
  </EventData>
</Event>

Can anyone help?
 
Oh, and btw: my cluster size is 512 bytes. I read somewhere that there could be a problem with this, but there was only a fix for Win Server 2003 >=(
 
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please, I really need help on this. I couldn't find anything on the web. Could someone at least tell me where I could find help?
 
Is see, your talking about the restore setting.

Try going to Start > Run, and type services,msc. Scroll down and make sure Volume Shadow Copy is not disabled.

The default setting is manual, try Automatic if that doesn't work.

You;ll need to reboot your computer after every change.
 
It is enabled, but if you read my post you'd know that as there are shadow copies but they are deleted on every restart.
 
Sorry, didn't go back far enough for your first post.

Try going to Start > Run, and type diskmgmt.msc and verify your partitions are NTFS.

Also, go to Start > Run, and type cmd. Now type vssadmin list shadowstorage
 
1) it is NTFS

2) everything ok, except for the 0% disk usage of shadow copies =/
After creating a restore point, i have 80MB disk usage and 2.9GB allocated memory.

PS: I changed the available disk space for vss to 200GB.
 
Here's how mine is setup in the attachment. I have a 750GB hard drive:

restore..jpg

How long have you had Windows 7 installed and did this occur immediately after install.

How many partitions and/or hard drives do you have?

Is a "clean" install out of the question?
 
I installed Win 7 the 28th of December and the first error message regarding vss is dated that day =/

I have 1 RAID1 partitition, so there are actually 2 HDs.

I'd prefer not to have to install everything again.
 
Hopefully someone else will pick op on this thread. Most of us all agree that the "clean" install route is the way to go.

An upgrade leaves useless files on your system and can cause conflicts as you are seeing now.
 
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