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ERROR_CANT_RECOVER_WITH_HANDLE_OPEN
An open file handle is preventing transactional recovery from establishing consistent state
ERROR_CANT_RECOVER_WITH_HANDLE_OPEN is a Transactional NTFS (TxF) file-system status. TxF recovery may need exclusive control over file state that was involved in an incomplete transaction. This status reports that recovery cannot continue because a handle to the file is still open. It differs from a sharing violation during normal file access: the blocked operation is transactional recovery of the resource manager or affected file state.
Identify the process holding the file handle and determine whether it is part of the application, a service, antivirus software, indexing, or another system component. Stop new opens before recovery and close the existing handle through the owning process; forcibly editing TxF metadata while a handle remains open risks making recovery assumptions false. After the handle is gone, rerun the supported recovery or mount path and check the resource-manager state.
What to inspect
- Find the process and handle that keep the file open during recovery.
- Quiesce the workload so the handle is not immediately reopened.
- Retry the documented recovery path only after all blocking handles are closed.
References
- Microsoft: querying TxF resource-manager state
- Microsoft: retrieving TxF metadata and locking transaction
- Microsoft: transacted file handles and transaction binding
- Microsoft: TxF programming considerations and error range
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