restore points and partions

I recently upgraded from XP Media Center to Vista Home Premium. I won't use
xp and don't have need for 2 OS's so...

I formated the recovery partition "D:" from Fat32 to NTFS. apparently vista
can't reat fat32 or something. I figured if It can't use it. get rid of it.

Then I performed a Clean Install on the other partition "Csystem)"

My question:
as "D:" is now empty 8G, can i use that to store my restore points... or do
they have to restore onto "C: (system)"? Is it best to keep both selected?

I am not using D for system backup... just restore point. I restore to
external hard drive.

Ploquit

The restore points must remain on the drive that System Restore is
monitoring.

--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"ploquit" <> wrote in message
news:78996A19-B25A-4B23-89DD-...
>I recently upgraded from XP Media Center to Vista Home Premium. I won't use
> xp and don't have need for 2 OS's so...
>
> I formated the recovery partition "D:" from Fat32 to NTFS. apparently
> vista
> can't reat fat32 or something. I figured if It can't use it. get rid of
> it.
>
> Then I performed a Clean Install on the other partition "Csystem)"
>
> My question:
> as "D:" is now empty 8G, can i use that to store my restore points... or
> do
> they have to restore onto "C: (system)"? Is it best to keep both selected?
>
> I am not using D for system backup... just restore point. I restore to
> external hard drive.
>
>
>

so to have both selected redundant (well i guess it won't restore from d,
makes sense). c: it is.


"Ronnie Vernon MVP" wrote:

> Ploquit
>
> The restore points must remain on the drive that System Restore is
> monitoring.
>
> --
>
> Ronnie Vernon
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Desktop Experience
>
>
> "ploquit" <> wrote in message
> news:78996A19-B25A-4B23-89DD-...
> >I recently upgraded from XP Media Center to Vista Home Premium. I won't use
> > xp and don't have need for 2 OS's so...
> >
> > I formated the recovery partition "D:" from Fat32 to NTFS. apparently
> > vista
> > can't reat fat32 or something. I figured if It can't use it. get rid of
> > it.
> >
> > Then I performed a Clean Install on the other partition "Csystem)"
> >
> > My question:
> > as "D:" is now empty 8G, can i use that to store my restore points... or
> > do
> > they have to restore onto "C: (system)"? Is it best to keep both selected?
> >
> > I am not using D for system backup... just restore point. I restore to
> > external hard drive.
> >
> >
> >
>

On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:05:02 -0800, ploquit wrote:

> apparently vista can't reat fat32 or something.

Rubbish. do you think Vista can't read floppies? It won't install to
a fat partition though.

--
Chris Game

"Never memorize something that you can look up."
-- Albert Einstein

On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:11:02 +0000, Chris Game <>
wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:05:02 -0800, ploquit wrote:
>
> > apparently vista can't reat fat32 or something.
>
> Rubbish.


Right, it's rubbish.


> do you think Vista can't read floppies?



But floppies don't use FAT32; they use FAT12.


> It won't install to
> a fat partition though.


Right.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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