Volume shadow copy error after moving to MSATA SSD on R7-572

Hello Scrambler, I know it's an old story but observe the same issue with VSS on a windows 10 pc. Iinstalled Gdisk  to looup the GPTnames of the partitions and indeed most are empty while the RE Recovery partitions has a some strange characters (Chinese). I also made an attempt to change and write  which seems to work but  in the end the new name was not accepted after a reboot. Any Idea why windows refuses to make the GPT-name change?

scrambler said:

It took me a while, but I finally figured out what was preventing the creation of the system image.

 

Looking in the event viewer, there were a lot of errors, the first one a CAPI2 error with event 513, then there was a VSS error with the event ID 8228 mentioning invalid character in an XML file.

Error said:
Fail to parse XML file.
Reason An invalid character was found in text content.
Line 0x000003c0
Position 0x000009c8, The file below is corrupt.
Errorcode 0xc00ce508
Problem text <WRITER_COMPONENTS xmlns="x-schema:#VssComponentMetadata" instanceId="f96e4a86-3bfc-4ab7-a4d6-5cf3a3e429a5" writerId="be000cbe-11fe-4426-9c58-531aa6355fc4" backupSchema="0"><COMPONENT logicalPath="ASR" componentName="ASR" componentType="filegroup"><BACKUP_METADATA

 

Searching through dozens of threads and trying a number of fixes without luck, I finally found one that mentioned their issue came from bad characters in some of the partition names after cloning with EaseUs Todo Backups.

 

As this is the tool I used to clone my drive onto an SSD, I decide to check it out.

 

The thread mentioned using GPT fdisk utility found on sourceforge, so I downloaded the tool.

You simply run the executable in Administrator mode. Finding how to use it was a bit hard, but basically the commands below did the job

 

0:        -activated the disk 0 which is my disk.

i           -allows you to see the information on each partition

 

It will ask for the number. This allows you to see the names. Some of my partitions had very strange names some had none, one had a quote.

I checked what names where used on another laptop, and decided to name mine as follow (I believe you can use any name)

 

first 600MB partion:         Basic data partition

Second 300MB partion:   EFI system partition

thrid 128MB partion:       Microsoft reserved partition

fourth 205GB partion:      Basic data partition

fifth 17GB partion:            Recovery partition

 

To change the partition name use the command

c          -will ask for the partition number, then the name

 

Then save with

w         -writes the revisions and exits

 

I rebooted, tried the system image backup, and no problem this time.

I wasted a full day on this, so hopefully it can help someone else in the future

I do not currently use an Acer computer, but I just wanted to thank you for posting this, as you've saved me some time and frustration, which apparently was also caused by my use of the EaseUS partition/disk products (Disk Copy 3.8, and/or Partition Master 16.0) to manipulate/clone drives and partitions recently.  I'm wondering if you contacted EaseUS support to report this issue, because it hasn't been fixed yet, apparently 4+ years later (based on the date of your solution above).  I am definitely reporting it to them now.  In my case, I used the EaseUS tools to clone/move my C: drive from a SATA SSD RAID1 to my new NVMe SSD RAID1, and afterwards, my Veeam Agent for Windows would no longer function, resulting in my system backups failing.  I am about to try GParted to see if it'll help me rename my partition, similar to how you used GPT fdisk.  I'd use GPT fdisk, but I'm not familiar with it, and am a little nervous using some unfamiliar tool on my system that doesn't seem to have much public adoption, especially since I can't take backups right now.  Thanks again for sharing the solution to this strange problem.

Regards,

Maximillian C.

Man, God bless you! Thanks a lot! You saved my nerves and time😊.

With best wishes,