Fix It: Windows Backup Failed Trying to Read from Shadow Copy

Backups are Good!You get Windows Backup all set up, and it’s working fine.

You are happy.

Then one day, you get to your puter and you have a lovely error message that reads, “Windows backup failed while trying to read from shadow copy on one of the volumes being backed up.”

You try everything, and it just won’t back up your stuff any more. It keeps giving some error about a failure because it cannot read a shadow copy on one particular volume.

Not to worry, because the solution is pretty simple…

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