System Restore Points keep disappearing

[JediKnightButler]

I set up a Dual Boot system with Windows Vista (Ultimate) on the main C: Drive and Windows XP Pro on a separate hard drive. I googled for some information and came up with a registry fix that is supposed to work but didn't. Then I downloaded Tweak UI and hid the main drive but that does not appear to be working either since system restore points for the main (Vista) drive keep periodically disappearing. It seems like sometimes the restore points get retained but other times they inexplicably vanish. Does anybody know a surefire way to keep this from happening? I don't like not having the system restore points in case I need to fix my system due to a bad piece of software. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

 

[Mr. B]

Isn't there a setting that determines how many restore sessions to keep... as well as how much HDD space to permit?

 

[Noname Given]

I set up a Dual Boot system with Windows Vista (Ultimate) on the main C: Drive and Windows XP Pro on a separate hard drive. I googled for some information and came up with a registry fix that is supposed to work but didn't. Then I downloaded Tweak UI and hid the main drive but that does not appear to be working either since system restore points for the main (Vista) drive keep periodically disappearing. It seems like sometimes the restore points get retained but other times they inexplicably vanish. Does anybody know a surefire way to keep this from happening? I don't like not having the system restore points in case I need to fix my system due to a bad piece of software. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Yes - get rid of the dual boot system and DUMP the crapfest of an OS that is Windows Vista; and PRAY Steve Balmer took his head out of his A$$ and Windows 8 (slated to be debuted teh first quarter of 2009) is a servicable OS - and isn't hobbled with all this extra security and DRM features that no one (even the producers of said media like Sony, or even Universal Stusios) never wanted .

 

[LaxScrutiny]

I set up a Dual Boot system with Windows Vista (Ultimate) on the main C: Drive and Windows XP Pro on a separate hard drive. I googled for some information and came up with a registry fix that is supposed to work but didn't. Then I downloaded Tweak UI and hid the main drive but that does not appear to be working either since system restore points for the main (Vista) drive keep periodically disappearing. It seems like sometimes the restore points get retained but other times they inexplicably vanish. Does anybody know a surefire way to keep this from happening? I don't like not having the system restore points in case I need to fix my system due to a bad piece of software. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Yes - get rid of the dual boot system and DUMP the crapfest of an OS that is Windows Vista; and PRAY Steve Balmer took his head out of his A$$ and Windows 8 (slated to be debuted teh first quarter of 2009) is a servicable OS - and isn't hobbled with all this extra security and DRM features that no one (even the producers of said media like Sony, or even Universal Stusios) never wanted .

The only extra DRM features are the ones that allow you to watch Blu-ray movies with a Blue-ray drive.

The security features that bug you so much disappear after the first week once all your software and personal settings have been set up. I haven't seen a security pop up in almost a year.

Vista is just as fast as XP and more stable. Any driver crash will no longer bring down the whole system like with XP.

You wouldn't know this because you obviously don't use it.
Dual Booting Vista and XP

The problem:

Windows XP automounts every disk it detects, including external or removable hard disks. As part of the automounting process, NTFS writes to the disk, and these writes are detected by the volsnap.sys driver in Windows XP. Because this version of volsnap.sys does not recognize the persistent shadow copies (also known as restore points) made by the volsnap.sys driver in Windows Vista, Windows XP cannot maintain the integrity of the shadow copy storage area and deletes the shadow copies to avoid corrupting them. Note that dual-booting Windows Vista with Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP Professional x64 Edition will also result in the shadow copies being deleted.

The easiest solution is to move your XP installation/partition to a new hard drive, get rid of the boot manager and use the bios options at startup to boot from an alternate drive. This is what I do and I haven't had any problems.

 

[James Bond]

This happened to me once before with XP. According the Tech I called, my OS had become corrupted somehow, so I had to reinstall Windows, unfortunately.