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| Hi everyone,
This is my first post so be kind....
My system is dual booting with XP on one partition and Vista on another. The default boot is to Vista.
I use Vista around 90% of the time but when I boot into XP all my system restore files and restore points in Vista are removed.
I have tried using restart and shutting down completely and the same thing happens when I reboot.
Question is why and is there any way around this?
Any help would be much appreciated.
PS I kept XP in case I didn't like Vista.
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| The wiping out of Vista restore points on a dual-boot XP/Vista machine is a well-known and long-standing problem. It has to do with Vista's implementation of shadow copy and XP's inability to understand that. The only solution, and one not proven to work, is to "hide" the Vista partition from XP when you're inside XP. I haven't found any app that will successfully do that, so I just live with the consequences.
BTW, every time you boot into XP, you wipe out ALL of the Vista restore points. I believe the same is true of booting into Vista and the XP restore points -- but I haven't been able to confirm that.
If you want to continue multi-booting, and you want to be able to do system restores, you need to acquire a third-party product to do you own full image backup and restores. I use Acronis True Image -- but there are other products as well.
ASUS A832nSLI-Deluxe, AMD 64X2 4400 OC 2.4GHz, 2GB OCZ,
Running: Windows 7, Vista 32-bit, Ubuntu 9.10, 9.04
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| Thanks for the advice but surprisingly I did find this article with the help of a friend in the UK:-
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185
It provides not one but 2 solutions. Whether they work or not remains to be seen. I guess the only sure way to fix it is to remove XP and plod on with Vista until some of the software people catch up. |
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| Thanks for the advice but surprisingly I did find this article with the help of a friend in the UK:-
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185
It provides not one but 2 solutions. Whether they work or not remains to be seen. I guess the only sure way to fix it is to remove XP and plod on with Vista until some of the software people catch up.
Wow -- thanks for the link!!
As to a "fix" -- a simple one is to do image backups offline with a product other than MS.
ASUS A832nSLI-Deluxe, AMD 64X2 4400 OC 2.4GHz, 2GB OCZ,
Running: Windows 7, Vista 32-bit, Ubuntu 9.10, 9.04
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