Windows 10: Fix System Restore Error 0x8000FFFF Catastrophic Failure on Windows 11/10

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If for one reason or another you try to perform System Restore on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 device but you get an error prompt stating Catastrophic Failure with error code 0x8000FFFF, then this post is intended to help affected PC users resolve the issue by applying any of the suggested fixes. When this […]

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Error 0x8000FFFF: Catastrophic Failure

Hi Paty,

The Error 0x8000FFFF: Catastrophic Failure may have occurred due to the recent change on your PC or the issue came from the USB Drive itself. To isolate your concern, we'd like to ask the following:

• Have you tried to use the USB Drive and create a new folder on a different PC?
  
• What troubleshooting steps have you tried so far to resolve the issue?

We look forward to your response.

 

Windows 10 System Restore Error

I am unable to create a restore point, or process a recovery point. When I try to open System Restore, the following error message is displayed:

"There was an enexpected error in the property page: Catastrophic failure (0x8000FFFF) Please close the property page and try again.

When I close and restart System Restore, the same error occurs.

 

System Restore Error 0x81000203 - can't create shadow copies

Please help me to diagnose and fix my VSS errors. Symptoms include:

• When visiting the System Protection tab in System Properties, I get the error message: "There was an unexpected error in the property page. System Restore encountered an error. Please try to run System Restore again. (0x81000203) Please close the property page and try again."
• In the event log I get an error with event ID 12293: "Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Error calling a routine on a Shadow Copy Provider {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}. Routine details IVssSnapshotProvider::IsVolumeSupported() failed with 0x8000ffff [hr = 0x8000ffff, Catastrophic failure]. Operation: Check If Volume Is Supported by ProviderContext: Execution Context: Coordinator Provider ID: {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5} Volume Name: \\?\Volume{48a79008-0000-0000-0000-100000000000}\

The Volume ID refers to my system volume.

So far, I have tried the following:

• vssadmin list writers — no errors shown
• sfc /scannow — no errors found
• chkdsk c: /f — no errors found
• I've even done a repair install of Windows, which didn't fix it.
• I enabled VSS tracing (trace attached), which identified at least the following errors:
  • THROW[CVssMachineInformation::GetMinDiffAreaOnVolume] Could not send the IOCTL 0x00534058 on device \\?\Volume{48a79008-0000-0000-0000-100000000000} - 0x000001cc. [0x00000001]
  • Cannot retrieve minimum diff area for volume \\?\Volume{48a79008-0000-0000-0000-100000000000}\ [0x8000ffff]. Using the default value 335544320

However, despite plenty of googling, I'm none the wiser at trying to fix those errors, and I'd be grateful for any help.

Thanks in advance.