cannot use recovery systems

I cannot create a restore point or use Backup (fails during shadow copy), I
get the same error
0x08000FFFF
which is a catastrophic error.
Any suggestions?
Vista 32 home premium on Athlon64 2GHz, 2G ram, 400G disc (about 20% full)

sorry error is 0x8000FFFF

"knight-gkla" wrote:

> I cannot create a restore point or use Backup (fails during shadow copy), I
> get the same error
> 0x08000FFFF
> which is a catastrophic error.
> Any suggestions?
> Vista 32 home premium on Athlon64 2GHz, 2G ram, 400G disc (about 20% full)

Well I don't know what put it right but the problem is resolved. The only
thing I am aware of that changed is that i have updated the Nvidia Gforce4
platform drivers. Having said that the main nvstor.sys has not changed
(510.2600.931). Hope this helps somebody

"knight-gkla" wrote:

> I cannot create a restore point or use Backup (fails during shadow copy), I
> get the same error
> 0x08000FFFF
> which is a catastrophic error.
> Any suggestions?
> Vista 32 home premium on Athlon64 2GHz, 2G ram, 400G disc (about 20% full)

Hi knight-gkla. I am having same prob on Vista Home Premium, AM
Athlon, MVIDIA GeForce 6100 Video

Trying to use "Backup Up Files" on brand new Windows Vista Hom
Premium. During "Creating a shadow copy" getting the message "Th
backup did not complete successfully. An error occurred. The followin
info... Catastrophic failure (0x8000FFFF). This is a brand-new system
We have loaded no s/w apps except for Office std 2007 and a couple M
of data in My Documents. Absolutely nothing else. I will try your hin
abt upgrading the NVIDIA driver & get back to you

Can't imagine what the programmers were smoking when they used the ter
"Catastrophic Failure" w/o further explanation. Scared the pants of
grandpa, I think he thought the machine was actually going to blow up o
him

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skater61

According to Microsoft, this issue may be related to E-machines (other
OEMs too?) messing w/ Vista. Called E-machines they piped me over to
Microsoft. MS gave me the run around back to E-machines. Guy #2 at
E-machines says they don't support this. MS wants $59 to give me the
time of day.

What a hopeless mess. Take the computer back or invalidate the
warranty by trying NVIDIA updates I know nothing about?

Anybody out there can offer help?

E-machines tech support I would rate at 0 stars max. Their people
can't even drive your PC. Don't buy E-machines.


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skater61

I am seeing the same problem when I am using the system restore

"skater61" wrote:

>
> Hi knight-gkla. I am having same prob on Vista Home Premium, AMD
> Athlon, MVIDIA GeForce 6100 Video:
>
> Trying to use "Backup Up Files" on brand new Windows Vista Home
> Premium. During "Creating a shadow copy" getting the message "The
> backup did not complete successfully. An error occurred. The following
> info... Catastrophic failure (0x8000FFFF). This is a brand-new system.
> We have loaded no s/w apps except for Office std 2007 and a couple MB
> of data in My Documents. Absolutely nothing else. I will try your hint
> abt upgrading the NVIDIA driver & get back to you.
>
> Can't imagine what the programmers were smoking when they used the term
> "Catastrophic Failure" w/o further explanation. Scared the pants off
> grandpa, I think he thought the machine was actually going to blow up on
> him.
>
>
> --
> skater61
>

worked on this w/ E-machines tech support for 70 min (nice gal got into
it w/ me, even tho they are not supposed to work "software" stuff & will
try to refuse you (threaten to put them on YouTube), but if you contact
MS, they won't touch it either b/c the keycode has "OEM" in it,
indicating E-machines has modified Vista. So apparently you are just
supposed to throw the computer out the window when this happens?? talk
about an entire industry that abdicates responsibility to their
customers. Alas.).

Anyway, bottom line, nice tech support gal and all her pals up the
escalation ladder tried every trick in the book but in the end I had to
re-build the whole computer from bottom up from the System Restore
disks. This resulted in me ending up w/ straight Vista not E-machine
Vista, loaded on, minor improvement. backing up regular but have not
yet tried the restore.

Best of luck to you.


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skater61