Snapshot Error “Not enough storage is available to complete this operation” on Windows 32-bit Operating Systems

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Created - September 8, 2010
Modified - January 12, 2011

Article: 4131512

Problem

Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) has a volume size limit of 5TB for  Windows 32-bit operating systems.  Replay snapshots on volumes larger than 5TB will fail with the error, “not enough storage is available to complete this operation“.

Solution

Please refer to the Microsoft article below for details.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755419(WS.10).aspx