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0xC0500003: STATUS_VOLSNAP_BOOTFILE_NOT_VALID

Windows Error Code Lookup: Decode Windows error codes: Win32, HRESULT (0x80070005), NTSTATUS, Windows Update, msiexec and blue-screen stop codes, with what to check next.

Paste the number from an error dialog, event log, script or setup log: 0x80070005, 80070005, -2147024891, 1603, 0xC0000005, a stop code like 0x7E, a name like E_ACCESSDENIED, or a few words. You get every way Windows could mean that number (an HRESULT often wraps a Win32 error, so 0x80070005 is "Access is denied" too), its parts decoded, and what to check for the common ones. Names and messages come from the Windows SDK headers and Windows' own message tables; see Microsoft's System Error Codes and [MS-ERREF] for the full references.

Try: 0x80070005, 1603, 0xC0000005, 0x800F081F, 0x8024402C, 0x7E, access denied

0xC0500003 = 3,226,468,355 = -1068498941

NTSTATUS 0xC0500003

STATUS_VOLSNAP_BOOTFILE_NOT_VALID

The bootfile is too small to support persistent snapshots.

Becomes the Win32 error: 2156003329

Severity (bits 30-31)3: Error
Customer (bit 29)0: Microsoft
Facility80 (0x050) VOLSNAP
Code3 (0x0003)