Backup Problems: error 0x80042308

Question

I use the Backup and Restore Center in Vista to automatically back up my files to an external hard drive.  It has worked every night until last night.  It's saying "The specified object was not found (0x80042308)".  How do I backup?

Answer 1

Are there any VSS Errors registered around the same time in eventvwr. The error 80042308 means VSS_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND. Try the following

Check the following registry

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID{FAF53CC4-BD73-4E36-83F1-2B23F46E513E}\Inp

rocServer32

What is the key showing eventcls.dll or es.dll?

unregister and reregister the components by running the following from command prompt

regsvr32 /u eventcls.dll

regsvr32 /i eventcls.dll

regsvr32 /u es.dll

regsvr32 es.dll

Now retry your backup. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Run regsvr32 /i es.dll show error message:

DllRegisterServer in es.dll failed. Return code was: 0x80040206.

How to fix? Thanks.

Answer 3

I have the exact problem that you listed here while unreg/reg the dlls.

Answer 4

Step 2 results in DlRegisterServer in eventcls.dll failed. Return code was 0x80020009.

Step 3 results in es.dll was loaded but the DllRegisterServer entry point was not found. It also says the EP may not be exported or a currupt version of es.dll may be in memory, and refers to using PView to detect and remove it.

Where do I go from here?