Error Messages

Fix Error 0xc1900223 When Installing Windows 10 Updates

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windows update error 0xc1900223 in windows 10

The error 0xc1900223 may appear when you attempt to update your Windows 10 installation, especially when installing a feature update like v1903 or v1909. There is no actionable advice from Microsoft, regarding this error.

windows update error 0xc1900223 in windows 10

However, the error continues to occur even when attempting to install the update every time.

The SetupDiag utility (download) would log this error:

Error: SetupDiag reports abrupt down-level failure.
Last Operation: Finalize
Error: 0xC1900223 - 0x20009
LogEntry: Error MOUPG CSetupManager :: ExecutePreDownloadMode (8491): Result = 0xC1900223

The usual Windows Update troubleshooting methods may not fix this error. This post tells you how to prevent the error 0xc1900223 in Windows 10.Read more

Fix: Device Harddisk DR0 has a “bad block” Error in Event Viewer

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Of late, one of my Windows 10 computers has been running sluggishly, hangs frequently or shuts down abruptly. The malware scans turned out to be normal and there are no processes consuming huge CPU time or memory. The disk usage remained at 100% though, regardless of the app I open.

The System event log showed multiple disk error entries. Here is one such event:

Log Name: System
Source: disk
Date: 15-08-2019 17:37:49
Event ID: 7
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: DESKTOP-3V7LVDA
Description:
The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block.

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After restarting Windows, the following event log entry gets added.

Log Name: System
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power
Date: 15-08-2019 19:28:09
Event ID: 41
Task Category: (63)
Level: Critical
Keywords: (70368744177664),(2)
User: SYSTEM
Computer: DESKTOP-3V7LVDA
Description:
The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.

The same error occurred for my secondary hard drive (Disk 1), and the error message read The device, \Device\Harddisk1\DR1, has a bad block.

If you have multiple hard drives and want to know which hard drive has a bad block, note down the Disk # indicated in the event log. Open Disk Management to see the list of drives and the corresponding drive #.

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A bad block is an area of the hard drive that is no longer reliable for storing and retrieving data. Bad block may indicate corruption or physical damage.

There are two types of bad blocks: A physical bad block comes from damage to the storage medium. A soft, or logical, bad block occurs when the operating system (OS) is unable to read data from a sector. Examples of a soft bad block include when the cyclic redundancy check (CRC), or error correction code (ECC), for a particular storage block does not match the data read by the disk. (TechTarget.com)

And, I couldn’t clone the drive using Macrium Reflect or EaseUS ToDo Backup. Macrium Reflect threw the error “clone failed” code 9, and EaseUS software stalled at 51% while cloning the disk.

In this article, I’ll tell you how I resolved the hard drive “bad block” error.Read more

Windows 10 Error 0x80070005 When Installing a Feature Update

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Windows 10 Error 0x80070005 When Installing Feature Update 1903

Your Windows 10 computer may show the error 0x80070005 when installing a feature update — e.g., when upgrading from version 1809 to 1903. The exact error message verbatim is below:

There were problems installing some updates, but we’ll try again later. Feature update to Windows 10, version 1903 – Error 0x80070005

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[Fix] Cannot Delete WindowsApps folder on Non-System Drives

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If you have changed the default app save location to an external hard drive or secondary drive, Windows will create three folders, namely, WpSystem, WindowsApps, and WUDownloadCache on the target drive.

You may later change your mind and revert the default save location to C:\. But you may be unable to delete the leftover WindowsApps folder on your secondary drive due to tight NTFS permissions assigned to the folder. The other two folders, WpSystem and WUDownloadCache can be deleted easily.

When you access the WindowsApps folder on your secondary drive, you may see the following message:

cannot delete windowsapps folder

You have been denied permission to access this folder.

And the Advanced Security Settings dialog shows the error:

Can't open access control editor. Unable to perform a security operation on an object that has no associated security.

cannot delete windowsapps folder

This article explains how to properly delete the leftover WindowsApps folder on your secondary or external hard disk drive(s).Read more

Windows Logs Off when Shutdown or Hibernate is used

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Over these years, at least since the Windows 7 era, we’ve seen several cases where the system logs you off when clicking on the Shutdown or Hibernate option in the Start menu. The problem may be seen in Windows 8, Windows 10, or 11 systems as well.

What causes Windows to log off the account instead when the shutdown or hibernate option is used?Read more

Windows Sandbox Error 0xc0370106 in Windows 10 1903

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Of late, many users are seeing the error 0xc0370106 when starting the Windows Sandbox. And, enabling or reinstalling Hyper-V, clean installing Windows using the latest ISO, running the DISM tool to restore missing files don’t fix the problem. Apparently, one of the updates (probably the Intel Microcode update KB4497165 as per Born’s site.) may be … Read more

VSS Event Log Errors: Event IDs 8193 and 13

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After upgrading to Windows 10 v1903, two VSS error entries appear in the Application event log during every shutdown. The Event IDs are 8193 and 13 with the event source as VSS. Along with the two error logs, an informational event (ID: 8224) is also recorded during the user session instead of shutdown. Here are the sample events:

Log Name:      Application
Source:        VSS
Date:          5/22/2019 10:43:47 AM
Event ID:      13
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      DESKTOP-JKJ4G5Q
Description:
Volume Shadow Copy Service information: The COM Server with CLSID {4e14fba2-2e22-11d1-9964-00c04fbbb345} and name CEventSystem cannot be started. [0x8007045b, A system shutdown is in progress.


Log Name:      Application
Source:        VSS
Date:          5/22/2019 10:43:47 AM
Event ID:      8193
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      DESKTOP-JKJ4G5Q
Description:
Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error calling routine CoCreateInstance.  hr = 0x8007045b, A system shutdown is in progress.

Log Name:      Application
Source:        VSS
Date:          5/22/2019 11:14:56 AM
Event ID:      8224
Task Category: None
Level:         Information
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      DESKTOP-JKJ4G5Q
Description:
The VSS service is shutting down due to idle timeout.

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Macrium Reflect is busy. A Backup or Restore operation is currently running

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After postponing a scheduled backup job using the Macrium Reflect imaging utility, when you attempt to create a new image backup manually via Macrium Reflect user interface, the following message appears: Reflect is busy. A Backup or Restore operation is currently running. Macrium Reflect doesn’t seem to allow you to create a backup manually after … Read more