backing up system32 files to another hard drive?

[Guest]

I've enabled VSS but it seems to be unable to create the shadow copies.

[TGRMN Software]

What error message are you getting? thanks
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[Guest]

Volume Shadow Copy creation failed for C:. VSS_E_PROVIDER_VETO.

I'm not really sure what it means, but there are a few key files in system32 that seem to always be in use (by the system I'm guessing) and I have no way to back them up if the shadow copy doesn't work.

[Guest]

I'll just post a log of the failed copy, I'm guessing you know what this means more than I do.

Starting... Ok
Initializing Volume Shadow Copy DLL ...
Creating Volume Shadow Copy for C: ...
[Volume Shadow Copy creation failed for C:. VSS_E_PROVIDER_VETO. Click 'Continue' if you want to proceed without Volume Shadow Copy.] Error.
Copying "AppEvent.Evt" (512.00KB) ... [Can not open "C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\AppEvent.Evt". The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.] Error.
-- Done: 0 (0) Err: 1 (512.00KB) Skipped: 0 (0) Tot: 1 (512.00KB) --
-- Average Transfer Rate: 0/Sec -- Elapsed Time: 0 sec

[TGRMN Software]

Plase see http://www.tgrmn.com/web/forum/viewtopict1072.htm

thanks
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[Guest]

Both hard drives are already formatted in NTFS and have more than 120 GB of free space each.

Could it be a problem with my VSS? Possibly a faulty download? (It shouldn't be since I got it from microsoft and my computer was validated)

[Guest]

Yeah, I double checked both hard drives and they're both formatted to NTFS already, and the free space isn't an issue.

Is there any other reason that the error I'm getting applies to?