On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:13:36 -0700, "John Barnes" wrote:
>> Or do you exclude the Vista HD from XP's System Restore?
>Does not protect Vista Restore points.
Bummer - it should, if MS designed their OS safely.
This is in contrast to "hiding" the Vista volume(s) drive letter(s) in
XP's TweakUI, which is known not to work either.
If XP is set to not SR a volume, it shouldn't touch the thing, and if
the volume is FATxx, you can delete any \SVI it created there.
The challenge is then to KEEP this disabled, as if the volume goes
away and comes back, XP duuuuuhfaults back to drooling SR all over it
again. Also, it's a tricky thing to catch SR's dialog box at the
right time; too early, and volumes you want to protect are not listed
in it, and too late, it will have already started drooling away.
No Windows version has been a safe platform for at-risk HDs since
WinME's System Restore. Any HD visible will immediately attract
unsolicited writes... the safety clue is Just Not There. See...
http://cquirke.spaces.live.com/blog/...8C23!289.entry
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