Exempt external drives from system restore?

[Guest Dave]

I have a couple of external hard drives that I would like to permanently

exempt from system restore. What happens is that if I turn them off and go

thru a reboot and then turn them on, system restore returns them to monitor

status. The drives always retain there drive letter designation. Is there

any way to make system restore remember the settings? Thanks.

[Guest Rey Santos]

RE: Exempt external drives from system restore?

 

See this discussion about it

How to permanently turn system restore off on my external drive ?

http://www.techsupportforum.com/microsoft-support/windows-xp-support/153106-how-permanently-turn-system-restore-off-my-external-drive.html

 

And what system restore guru Bert Kiney has to say:

How to disable system restore on USB and 1394 hard drives?

http://help.lockergnome.com/windows/disable-system-restore-USB-1394-hard-drives-ftopict580683.html

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Rey

 

 

"Dave" wrote:

> I have a couple of external hard drives that I would like to permanently

> exempt from system restore. What happens is that if I turn them off and go

> thru a reboot and then turn them on, system restore returns them to monitor

> status. The drives always retain there drive letter designation. Is there

> any way to make system restore remember the settings? Thanks.

>

>

>

[Guest Dave]

Re: Exempt external drives from system restore?

 

 

"Rey Santos" <ReySantos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:6C9319BC-3D70-4D8C-B169-9C2C77824007@microsoft.com...

> See this discussion about it

> How to permanently turn system restore off on my external drive ?

> http://www.techsupportforum.com/microsoft-support/windows-xp-support/153106-how-permanently-turn-system-restore-off-my-external-drive.html

>

> And what system restore guru Bert Kiney has to say:

> How to disable system restore on USB and 1394 hard drives?

> http://help.lockergnome.com/windows/disable-system-restore-USB-1394-hard-drives-ftopict580683.html

 

Yes I had seen all that before posting here. The gpedit solution might have

a chance but from what I could understand it just leaves system restore in

defaults which I think would eventually put the drives back to monitored

status. After posting I realized that the easiest way for me to do this is

to have my drives turned off on reboot. If I do this system restore will

only recognize the drives as off line when I turn them on in windows.

Thanks

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> Rey

>

>

> "Dave" wrote:

>

>> I have a couple of external hard drives that I would like to permanently

>> exempt from system restore. What happens is that if I turn them off and

>> go

>> thru a reboot and then turn them on, system restore returns them to

>> monitor

>> status. The drives always retain there drive letter designation. Is

>> there

>> any way to make system restore remember the settings? Thanks.

>>

>>

>>

[Guest Uwe Sieber]

Re: Exempt external drives from system restore?

 

Dave wrote:

> I have a couple of external hard drives that I would like to permanently

> exempt from system restore. What happens is that if I turn them off and go

> thru a reboot and then turn them on, system restore returns them to monitor

> status. The drives always retain there drive letter designation. Is there

> any way to make system restore remember the settings? Thanks.

 

There is no build in mechanism for that. Settings can

be made only on a 'per drive letter' basis. When the

drive of a drive letter changes then the settings

are reset.

 

I have tried to automatically deactivate it for each

new external drive after arrival. This works as good

as doing it manually - usually it works but sometimes

it does not. I've put this function into my USBDLM

service (USB drive letter manager):

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

 

Settings for XP System Restore:

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_help_e.html#hs120

 

 

 

Uwe