Re: Vista System Restore Points Disappear

Hello

This is a known issue for XP to wipe out Vista's restore point
everytime XP starts. The tutorial below can help show you how to sto
this from happening

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/12...oot-delete.htm

Hope this helps
Shaw

CookyMonzta via WindowsKB.com;1116318 Wrote:
> Is it normal for my System Restore points to disappear with my dual-boo
> setup? I have Vista on my first drive (in a master SATA socket) and X
> on m
> second drive (in slave SATA socket), with Acronis OS Selector in Vist
> t
> switch between operating systems. [Vista was the first OS I installed
> an
> with the first drive disconnected I installed XP on the second drive.
>
> Whenever I activate XP, the next time I go back to Vista, the restor
> point
> I had in Vista beforehand disappear. From there on, changes and ne
> installations bring new restore points, but the next time I visit XP
> m
> Vista restore points from that point disappear as well
>
> Can I expect this with any dual-boot setup, or, if I should decide t
> reinstall everything should I install XP on my second drive first
> while m
> first drive is still plugged in? Or is there another solution I haven'
> found yet
>
> -
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> 'Windows Vista - general Windows Vista topics
> (http://www.windowskb.com/Uwe/Forums....vista/200908/1

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I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted. You should still be able to
access XP through Vista though. It's only XP that cannot see Vista, but
a 3rd hard drive as a bridge would be best as you suggested.

CookyMonzta via WindowsKB.com;1116497 Wrote:
> Brink wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is a known issue for XP to wipe out Vista's restore points
> everytime XP starts. The tutorial below can help show you how to stop
> this from happening.
>
> http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/12...ot-delete.html
>
>
> Hope this helps,
> Shawn
> ================================================== =======================
> Yup. I did some digging on the Web and found that page.
>
> I tried the manual solution, and it worked. Too bad you lose access to
> the
> Vista drive when you try it, and you can't restore the name you gave to
> the
> Vista partition (it reverts back to 'Local Disk (D", which cannot be
> renamed); but in my case there are not a lot of Vista files that I will
> want
> to use for XP, anyway.
>
> And I have more than a terabyte of external hard drives I can use as a
> bridge
> when I flip back and forth between XP and Vista (or Linux, for that
> matter).
>
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