NT BAckup VSS Writer Problem

I am having a problem backing up a Windows 2003 SBS server - the backup has at the initial preparing to backup using shadow copy - please see results below from vssadmin list writers

Writer name: 'System Writer'
   Writer Id: {e8132975-6f93-4464-a53e-1050253ae220}
   Writer Instance Id: {7fd021eb-40d9-477c-86da-b7d0b1b5a42a}
   State: [8] Failed
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'MSDEWriter'
   Writer Id: {f8544ac1-0611-4fa5-b04b-f7ee00b03277}
   Writer Instance Id: {91a844d3-7c3e-4aea-8daa-3ffb233d2c60}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'SqlServerWriter'
   Writer Id: {a65faa63-5ea8-4ebc-9dbd-a0c4db26912a}
   Writer Instance Id: {5a3ab7a3-b4ed-41b0-9743-c651da380d4a}
   State: [8] Failed
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'FRS Writer'
   Writer Id: {d76f5a28-3092-4589-ba48-2958fb88ce29}
   Writer Instance Id: {66e065d2-ffce-46f9-ab68-03fdea5eb117}
   State: [8] Failed
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Registry Writer'
   Writer Id: {afbab4a2-367d-4d15-a586-71dbb18f8485}
   Writer Instance Id: {0afff78e-feea-4725-b142-413e08933201}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'COM+ REGDB Writer'
   Writer Id: {542da469-d3e1-473c-9f4f-7847f01fc64f}
   Writer Instance Id: {4cec1116-26f5-430b-9c6f-4334d64b5111}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Event Log Writer'
   Writer Id: {eee8c692-67ed-4250-8d86-390603070d00}
   Writer Instance Id: {4c09f128-b95f-48a4-82d4-ad3453ebeda8}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Dhcp Jet Writer'
   Writer Id: {be9ac81e-3619-421f-920f-4c6fea9e93ad}
   Writer Instance Id: {d6df5bbb-7f19-4fcd-a315-d9fb0d8b2538}
   State: [8] Failed
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'IIS Metabase Writer'
   Writer Id: {59b1f0cf-90ef-465f-9609-6ca8b2938366}
   Writer Instance Id: {77443bdb-9fa7-422d-83c3-6a8250b62caa}
   State: [8] Failed
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'NTDS'
   Writer Id: {b2014c9e-8711-4c5c-a5a9-3cf384484757}
   Writer Instance Id: {ab802888-5a75-48dd-b55b-af4d7e3396c5}
   State: [1] Stable
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'WINS Jet Writer'
   Writer Id: {f08c1483-8407-4a26-8c26-6c267a629741}
   Writer Instance Id: {e13c5b86-258b-474a-8627-8741e4166db2}
   State: [8] Failed
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
   Writer Id: {a6ad56c2-b509-4e6c-bb19-49d8f43532f0}
   Writer Instance Id: {8b5903be-769f-4497-b376-9c7d0c808bc9}
   State: [8] Failed
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'BITS Writer'
   Writer Id: {4969d978-be47-48b0-b100-f328f07ac1e0}
   Writer Instance Id: {51d82772-c0fe-4d08-ba60-a3a621a0dddb}
   State: [8] Failed
   Last error: No error

Writer name: 'Removable Storage Manager'
   Writer Id: {5d3c3e01-0297-445b-aa81-a48d7151e235}
   Writer Instance Id: {ec037a4f-d8e1-471d-a759-3f4dbac1cfd5}
   State: [8] Failed
   Last error: No error