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The user initially sought to disable shadow copies to perform a defragmentation and encountered issues with shadow copies still appearing active despite attempts to turn them off through Device Manager and service management. Following advice, they ran a command to delete all shadow copies, which eventually succeeded after multiple attempts, resulting in the locked blocks being freed even though the shadow copy status remained reported as enabled by their defragmentation tool. Overall, the user resolved their primary issue of locked blocks, expressing gratitude, but noted the persistent reporting of shadow copy status.
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I was about run a defrag on C: with O&O, but since there are a lot of locked blocks, I decided to temporarily turn off hibernation and shadow copies, but I've run into a problem with the latter. Even after turning it off and deleting shadow copies in the Device Manager, O&O still reports that shadow copies are enabled, and unlike when I've done this before, it doesn't appear that the locked blocks have been reduced any. I even disabled the shadow copy service, but that made no difference either. Any idea of how to rectify this?
 

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Try running a Command Prompt as Administrator and issue the following command:

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vssadmin Delete Shadows /all
 
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Thanks, but it didn't work. O&O still reports it active and the locked files are the same. Here is a shot of the CMD I ran:

An image from 'Turning Off Shadow Copies'. CMD error showing failed attempt to delete 18 volume shadow copies on non-local volume.


Not sure, but it may be because I had already deleted the copies in the Device Manager.
 
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I decided to run the comand again, and this time it asked to verify 16 deletions, instead of 18 as before, and it succeeded. O&O still reports VSS as being enabled, but the locked blocks have disappeared, which was my real objective. Thanks for the help.
 
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