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VDS_E_PROVIDER_INITIALIZATION_FAILED
VDS_E_PROVIDER_INITIALIZATION_FAILED The failure occurs at the provider boundary. VDS is an extensible service: software and hardware providers implement the interfaces that enumerate and manage storage objects. If one provider cannot initialize, calls that depend on that provider can fail even though the VDS service itself is running and unrelated storage remains usable.
What the VDS state means
Diagnosis should therefore separate service initialization from provider initialization. The existing VDS common error VDS_E_INITIALIZED_FAILED is about VDS initialization; VDS_E_PROVIDER_INITIALIZATION_FAILED points to a provider. The IVdsProvider object exposes provider properties, while provider-specific interfaces define whether it manages software disks, hardware subsystems, or virtual disks.
Diagnostic focus
- Identify the provider CLSID/name and whether the failure affects every VDS provider or only one implementation.
- Check provider registration, service dependencies, vendor management components, and contemporaneous application or system log entries.
- Do not infer physical disk failure solely from this HRESULT. A provider can fail before it has successfully enumerated any disk.
- For legacy code, remember that Microsoft marks the VDS COM API as superseded beginning with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012; do not mix a modern Storage Management API error with this VDS HRESULT.
Technical references
VDS common return codes · MS-VDS error codes · IVdsProvider · VDS interfaces and structures
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