Generic volume shadow copy driver

 · At the same time, the shadow copy in question does not appear in the output of the "vssadmin list shadows" command in the elevated commmand prompt. Description. Devices under "Storage volume shadow copies", among others, are created and controlled by Windows through www.doorway.ru driver and Microsoft Software VSS Provider.  · For compactness, I initialize Generic volume shadow copy as Gvsc and Generic storage volume as Gv below, and omit dates where neither driver was installed. Gvsc Gv Date Installs Installs 8/07 42 2 8/11 2 0 8/12 0 1 8/15 3 0 8/16 2 0 8/17 2 0 8/18 2 0 8/21 13 0 8/26 5 2 8/28 0 2 9/07 1 0 9/08 2 0 9/09 4 0 9/10 1 0 9/11 1 0 9/12 2 0 9/13 2 0 9/  · If you have Shadow copies and you run into difficulties with Windows Ststem or Drivers or Program Installations you can Restore your system to a previeously known good state. If you go to Control Panel then System, then System Protection you will see a System Restore button.

What I did was right click on one of the Generic Volume Shadow Copy lines, clicked on Add Class (making it my only class). The good ones turned green, and the ghosts turned a darker sort of orange. Then I clicked on Remove Ghosts, and all the "ghosted" Generic Volume Shadow Copies went away. My Computer. System One. If you have Shadow copies and you run into difficulties with Windows Ststem or Drivers or Program Installations you can Restore your system to a previeously known good state. If you go to Control Panel then System, then System Protection you will see a System Restore button. In the Device Managers "Storage Volume Shadow Copies" of the hidden devices I have a ton of "Generic Volume Shadow Copies" that are greyed out. For properties see picture. It appears that those shadows do not exist any more. Does anybody know why they are being kept around. It understand that deleting them does not help - they reappear.

Solution. Stop the Volume Shadow Copy service. Open a Command prompt window using the cmd command. At the command prompt enter. Download the latest drivers for your Generic volume shadow copy to keep your Computer up-to-date. I see one or two installs of the Generic volume shadow copy device driver in Reliability Monitor every day, and there are currently