Volume Shadow Service

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HOW THE HELL DO I GET THIS TO WORK IN MY COPY OF WINDOWS
XP PRO SP1 OEM. I USE IT IN WINDOWS 2003 AND WORKS GRATE
THERE AND NOW I WANT TO USE IT IN XP. I CAN GET THE THING
TO EVEN ENABLE ON THE DRIVE IN THE PROPETIES ON THE DRIVE
LIKE IN WINDOWS 2003. VSSADMIN DOSENT LET ME ADD SHADOWS
SO WHAT GOOD IS THE SERVICE IF I CANT BACKUP A DAME THING.

Thanks for all your help with this stupid microsoft
product ;)
 
Zeurx The Clone said:
HOW THE HELL DO I GET THIS TO WORK IN MY COPY OF WINDOWS
XP PRO SP1 OEM. I USE IT IN WINDOWS 2003 AND WORKS GRATE
THERE AND NOW I WANT TO USE IT IN XP. I CAN GET THE THING
TO EVEN ENABLE ON THE DRIVE IN THE PROPETIES ON THE DRIVE
LIKE IN WINDOWS 2003. VSSADMIN DOSENT LET ME ADD SHADOWS
SO WHAT GOOD IS THE SERVICE IF I CANT BACKUP A DAME THING.

Thanks for all your help with this stupid microsoft
product ;)
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From memory it requires the data being backed up to be on NTFS and I think it uses a temporary staging area that also has to be NTFS. The backup media can be anything. I know that in a mixed NTFS/Fat environment I had to configure (the format of the drives) carefully to make it work.

Plus it needs heaps of free space.
 
And of course you haven't been disabling services such as the Volume Copy Service have you?
 
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