This is the latest in a series of strange events in my Vista 64-bit ULTIMATE install (fresh build not upgrade). I installed SP1 at the time of build in October last year and migrated to SP2 on the day of release. All these issues occured PRIOR to the install of SP2.
First, the Previous Versions tab always states "There are no previous versions available", yet vssadmin says copies are being kept
C:\Windows\system32>vssadmin list shadowstorage
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.
Shadow Copy Storage association
For volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{6cf5fb0f-9628-11dd-bb50-806e6f6e6963}\
Shadow Copy Storage volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{6cf5fb0f-9628-11dd-bb50-806e6f6e6963}\
Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 30.957 GB
Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 33.266 GB
Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 139.727 GB
Secondly, the Reliability Monitor graph stopped updating for months, only recently (possibly when I installed SP2?) to suddenly update and include the months of missing data. Logging ceased on the 12th or 16th December and nothing special appears in Event Viewer at that time.
And now my Games menu is empty and attempts to open it result in a window opening and then closing immediately. This recently prevented the installation of a game:
Log Name: Application
Source: MsiInstaller
Date: 01/06/2009 23:37:28
Event ID: 10005
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: Bleater\squidgy
Computer: Bleater
Description:
Product: AI War -- Error 4130. There was an error during the Game Explorer configuration process.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="MsiInstaller" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">10005</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-06-01T22:37:28.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>11235</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>Bleater</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-21-4018355312-2030488072-1444850250-1000" />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>Product: AI War -- Error 4130. There was an error during the Game Explorer configuration process.</Data>
<Data>(NULL)</Data>
<Data>(NULL)</Data>
<Data>(NULL)</Data>
<Data>(NULL)</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Data>
</Data>
<Binary>7B35323345353843372D363236352D344339342D394136302D3741324238443835374539327D</Binary>
</EventData>
</Event>
The only event appearing consistently in Event Viewer is:
Log Name: Application
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Perflib
Date: 31/05/2009 22:07:35
Event ID: 1010
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Bleater
Description:
The Collect Procedure for the "EmdCache" service in DLL "C:\Windows\system32\emdmgmt.dll" generated an exception or returned an invalid status. The performance data returned by the counter DLL will not be returned in the Perf Data Block. The first four bytes (DWORD) of the Data section contains the exception code or status code.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Perflib" Guid="{13B197BD-7CEE-4B4E-8DD0-59314CE374CE}" EventSourceName="Perflib" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49152">1010</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-05-31T21:07:35.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>11220</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>Bleater</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<UserData>
<EventXML xmlns:auto-ns2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events" xmlns="Perflib">
<param1>EmdCache</param1>
<param2>C:\Windows\system32\emdmgmt.dll</param2>
<binaryDataSize>8</binaryDataSize>
<binaryData>8F04000000000000</binaryData>
</EventXML>
</UserData>
</Event>
A chkdsk c: /b shows everything is fine. A scan of the hard disk using the manufacturers (Western Digital) toolkit says everything checks out. A scan of the OS integrity using sfc /scannow says everything is fine. NOD32 reports no intrusions.
I am completely at a loss.
1. Why am I using Shadow Volume space but have no Previous Versions listed for any folder?
2. Why did the Reliability Monitor stop operating from the middle of December 08 for several months and then why did it start again?
3. Why is Games Explorer broken?
I have been unable to resolve the problem via the usual means and I am desperate to avoid a rebuild or Windows repair install.
