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Perdu · #1 Post by **Perdu** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:18 pm

Occasionally I create a restore point, but when I go to look for my restore point days later there are no restore points. I'm not aware that I have any maintenance tasks that are doing disk clean up. Any ideas?

#2 Post by **GomJabbar** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:45 pm

If you have a dual boot setup with XP, when you boot XP that can delete the restore points in Vista.

See following for a solution in this scenerio: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926185/en-us

#3 Post by **Kyocera** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:09 am

I had the problem of dual boot and losing restoer points a while back. http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=39958

#4 Post by **GomJabbar** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 11:04 am

From the other thread you linked to:

Kyocera wrote:so far there is not a real fix for this other than to completely hide the two OS's which I dont' want to do.

With XP on the main hard drive and Vista on the 2nd hard drive in the UltraBay Slim adapter I have Vista hidden from XP, but XP is visible and accessible from Vista. This is acceptable to me.

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... 082#299082

#5 Post by **Kyocera** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 11:20 am

With XP on the main hard drive and Vista on the 2nd hard drive in the UltraBay Slim adapter

I don't think this is dual boot. I'm not sure if that configuration would cause the restore points to disappear.

#6 Post by **GomJabbar** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 11:59 am

That is the setup I have always had with XP and Vista, be it Beta 2, RC1, or Vista SP1. I also had the restore points deleted in Vista until I did what I posted in the linked thread above.

EDIT: Yeah, it's kind of hard to disable a drive in Device Manager when you are booted up on it.

EDIT2: Here is what Microsoft wrote in the link I posted above.

Microsoft wrote:Effects of this workaround

After you restart Windows XP, you cannot access the volume that is created in Windows Vista from Windows XP. However, you can still access the volume that is created in Windows XP from Windows Vista. You must use Windows XP drive or an additional drive such as a USB thumb drive for data exchange.

#7 Post by **Kyocera** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 12:02 pm

wikipedia wrote:On a computer with both Windows Vista and either Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installed, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 deletes any existing System Restore points belonging to Windows Vista during boot.[1] Microsoft confirms this issue but maintains that it is a fundamental function of the way XP works and cannot be changed. The solution, Microsoft maintains, is to install Windows Vista on a separate physical drive, not a partition, and make it invisible to XP.[ci

sinanju009 · #8 Post by **sinanju009** » Sat Jun 14, 2008 9:28 pm

Vista is deleting your restore point(s) because it determined you don't have enough free space. I had the same problem (160GB with 3GB or less free space). Cloned my setup to a 250GB and my restore points are now preserved.

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