Volume Shadow Copy Service Errors

Volume shadow copy service is relative to system restore. Click start > run > type regsvr32 %systemroot%\system32\swprv.dll > ok. Post your results. You can copy and paste the command if you wish. If that does not solve the issue follow the instructions below given by another user on another thread.

Create a batch file with the following text:

cd /d %windir%\system32

Net stop vss

Net stop swprv

regsvr32 ole32.dll

regsvr32 oleaut32.dll

regsvr32 vss_ps.dll

vssvc /register

regsvr32 /i swprv.dll

regsvr32 /i eventcls.dll

regsvr32 es.dll

regsvr32 stdprov.dll

regsvr32 vssui.dll

regsvr32 msxml.dll

regsvr32 msxml3.dll

regsvr32 msxml4.dll

Upon running the batch file if you get one or both of the following errors:

dllregisterserver in swprv.dll failed:

regsvr32 /i swprv.dll returns the error "DLLInstall in swprv.dll

failed. Return Code was: 0x8000ffff"

dllregisterserver in es.dll failed

Followed by the recorded events in the event log with the event ID 12289:

Then there are three events in the event log all event ID 12289 source: VSS

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error RegOpenKeyExW(-2147483646,SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SvcHost,...).  hr = 0x80070005.

And

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error CComModule::RegisterServer(TRUE).  hr = 0x80020009.

And

Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error RegOpenKeyExW(-2147483646,SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SvcHost,...).  hr = 0x80070005.

Or when opening the Properties of the hard disk drive and opening the Shadow Copies tab you see the error:

Initialization failed

Error 0x8004230f: the shadow copy provider had an unexpected error while tring to process the specified operation

Or the Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider Service  is not installed or had been uninstalled or is missing in the services list

Solution:

Run the following three Microsoft Hotfixes in this specific order, and reboot after EACH one has been installed for a total of three reboots:

1.KB 943669

2.KB 975928

3.KB 979457

Give Full Permission to Administrator and System account for the registry 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows   NT\CurrentVersion\SvcHost'

And again run the batch file to register the DLLs

Reference for error and command prompt commands:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940032

Regards,

Joel

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Any suggestions about the vssui.dll module not found error message?

 

( "LoadLibrary("vssui.dll") failed - The specified module could not be found." )

 

Thanks again

I am still looking into this.

Thanks,

Joel

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Any suggestions about the vssui.dll module not found error message?

( "LoadLibrary("vssui.dll") failed - The specified module could not be found." )

Thanks again

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Thanks,

Joel

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Thank you so much, Joel. Step 2, the batch file, has eliminated the errors from the system event log.

When I ran the batch file, it prompted me with an error message though:

           "LoadLibrary("vssui.dll") failed - The specified module could not be found."

Should I be concerned about that?

Thanks