How to run vssadmin commands in a Windows 2008 machine (4046767)

You must run the diskshadow bellow as Administrator.

Click on the Start Menu and Right click on Command Prompt and select run as administrator and once in command prompt as administrtor type diskshadow and press enter.

1. diskshadow
2. list shadows all
3. delete shadows id 36350cd8-5ae2-4ccc-a9e3-e0db64116883 => The ID of the shadow you want+ to delete if you have multiple and want to remove one.
OR
4. delete shadows all => To delete them all if the only ones listed are the ones you want to delete.
5. Go to the drives where the shadow copies resided and you will see a folder named after the shadow copy which is now empty. This can be deleted using explorer