Rock

"vasu" <vasu@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote

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> One more thing to remember, this dual booting tends to wipe out each
> others
> restore point. So use restore point carefully, and whenever required that
> is
> to say when you are installing something, turn it on manually.

To be precise here, when dual booting XP and Vista, when booting into XP,
all the Vista restore points, file shadow copies and backups on partitions
that XP can see, are deleted by XP's Volsnap.sys. On the other hand XP
restore points are not deleted when Vista is booted.

This can be avoided by hiding the Vista partition from XP through the use of
Bitlocker, or a 3rd party boot manager.

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]