After succesfully using the back up system in Vista I find that this time it
fails with the following message:

'The Back up did not complete successfully for the following reason:
The shadow copy provider had an unexpected error while trying to process the
specified operation.
(0x8004230F)'

I was using a previous writable DVD which had worked before.
I tried a new DVD with the same result.
I have recently downloaded a BIOS update from DELL which did not seem to
complete satisfactorily.

Can anyone offer any help?

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"Fred" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:3FB2AD98-F0A7-4C91-98BF-(E-Mail Removed)...
> After succesfully using the back up system in Vista I find that this time
> it
> fails with the following message:
>
> 'The Back up did not complete successfully for the following reason:
> The shadow copy provider had an unexpected error while trying to process
> the
> specified operation.
> (0x8004230F)'
>
> I was using a previous writable DVD which had worked before.
> I tried a new DVD with the same result.
> I have recently downloaded a BIOS update from DELL which did not seem to
> complete satisfactorily.
>
> Can anyone offer any help?
>
>
>
>

I too have recently started to experience this issue with a Western Digital
external backup hard drive. I have seen some posts elsewhere that suggest if
your computer has gone to sleep at some time before the backup begins it
could render the failure code you have provided. However, my backup failed
today and the computer as not been asleep at any time.

I have done nothing to this laptop other than install the latest round of
updates for Vista, etc. (but not SP1).

"Fred" wrote:

> After succesfully using the back up system in Vista I find that this time it
> fails with the following message:
>
> 'The Back up did not complete successfully for the following reason:
> The shadow copy provider had an unexpected error while trying to process the
> specified operation.
> (0x8004230F)'
>
> I was using a previous writable DVD which had worked before.
> I tried a new DVD with the same result.
> I have recently downloaded a BIOS update from DELL which did not seem to
> complete satisfactorily.
>
> Can anyone offer any help?
>
>
>
>

Might be an idea to check to see if those pre-updates before SP1 release
was for USB though....IIRC, there was (someone please correct me if I am
wrong). :-)


Forkboy wrote:
> I too have recently started to experience this issue with a Western Digital
> external backup hard drive. I have seen some posts elsewhere that suggest if
> your computer has gone to sleep at some time before the backup begins it
> could render the failure code you have provided. However, my backup failed
> today and the computer as not been asleep at any time.
>
> I have done nothing to this laptop other than install the latest round of
> updates for Vista, etc. (but not SP1).
>
> "Fred" wrote:
>
>> After succesfully using the back up system in Vista I find that this time it
>> fails with the following message:
>>
>> 'The Back up did not complete successfully for the following reason:
>> The shadow copy provider had an unexpected error while trying to process the
>> specified operation.
>> (0x8004230F)'
>>
>> I was using a previous writable DVD which had worked before.
>> I tried a new DVD with the same result.
>> I have recently downloaded a BIOS update from DELL which did not seem to
>> complete satisfactorily.
>>
>> Can anyone offer any help?
>>
>>
>>
>>