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I formatted a 16GB USB flash disk to NTFS and tried to make it VSS available, but failed. I tried to do it on a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine, running 

vssadmin create shadow /for=e:

and I got error:

Error: The given shadow copy provider does not support shadow copying the specified volume.

Can some one tell me why it is not allowed? I thought the only requirement is using NTFS on the volume(partition).

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  • Obviously you were mistaken about the requirement. There is a great deal that Windows does not like putting on removable devices.
    – Ramhound
    Commented Jul 10, 2015 at 13:18
  • There are ways to make an external removable flash drive, appear not to be removable to Windows, you could try doing that. I wouldn't because I suspect there is a good reason this isn't supported.
    – Ramhound
    Commented Jul 10, 2015 at 16:12

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