System restore setting for individual drives

[Guest Tom Del Rosso]

I have backup drives that are near full because I keep as many backups as

will fit, so I get errors that say System Restore doesn't have enough space

on the drive. I disable it for those drives, but can somebody please

explain what System Restore would do with a non-system drive? I mean it's

not going to find any registry files there, so what's the logic of it?

 

 

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[Guest Malke]

Re: System restore setting for individual drives

 

Tom Del Rosso wrote:

> I have backup drives that are near full because I keep as many backups as

> will fit, so I get errors that say System Restore doesn't have enough space

> on the drive. I disable it for those drives, but can somebody please

> explain what System Restore would do with a non-system drive? I mean it's

> not going to find any registry files there, so what's the logic of it?

>

>

 

There is no logic to it. I don't know why XP's System Restore defaults

to monitoring non-system drives but there is no reason for it. You are

completely correct to disable System Restore for all drives except the

system drive.

 

 

Malke

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[Guest Bob I]

Re: System restore setting for individual drives

 

Just turn it off for any non-system drive.

 

Tom Del Rosso wrote:

> I have backup drives that are near full because I keep as many backups as

> will fit, so I get errors that say System Restore doesn't have enough space

> on the drive. I disable it for those drives, but can somebody please

> explain what System Restore would do with a non-system drive? I mean it's

> not going to find any registry files there, so what's the logic of it?

>

>

[Guest Uncle Grumpy]

Re: System restore setting for individual drives

 

Bob I <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Just turn it off for any non-system drive.

 

Like, DUH!!! <grin>

[Guest Bert Kinney]

Re: System restore setting for individual drives

 

This was MS being overly protective. In hindsight, it was a mistake. This is

why the default was changed in Vista, to only monitor the system drive.

 

Regards,

Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User

http://bertk.mvps.org

Member: http://dts-l.net

 

Malke wrote:

> Tom Del Rosso wrote:

>> I have backup drives that are near full because I keep as many backups as

>> will fit, so I get errors that say System Restore doesn't have enough

>> space

>> on the drive. I disable it for those drives, but can somebody please

>> explain what System Restore would do with a non-system drive? I mean

>> it's

>> not going to find any registry files there, so what's the logic of it?

>>

>>

>

> There is no logic to it. I don't know why XP's System Restore defaults

> to monitoring non-system drives but there is no reason for it. You are

> completely correct to disable System Restore for all drives except the

> system drive.

>

>

> Malke