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11-18-2007
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| Guest | System Restore Points without shadow copy - there has got to be a way!! Hi, I've considering getting a small notebook with a 48 GB Solid State disk, but it only comes with Vista Business. With that little HD space, I really cannot spare 7-8 GB for Shadow Copies. Frankly, I do not need shadow copies of my regular files, but I do need system restore points (they have saved my rear-end more than once in XP). I know that I can shrink the space used for shadow copies, but I would like for whatever space I allocate to be used for System Restore Points only - not for backup of user files. Does anyone know of a way to have "XP-like" System Restore Points in Vista without Shadow Copy of user files? Thanks, Larry |
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11-19-2007
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| Guest | Re: System Restore Points without shadow copy - there has got to be a way!! The answer is to disable System Restore and VSS then use a 3rd party disk imaging program with an external USB hard drive. AFAIK System Restore in Vista cannot be made to work the way you want it to. -- Kerry Brown Microsoft MVP - Shell/User http://www.vistahelp.ca "Larry" <noemail@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:13k287281o8kq3d@xxxxxx
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11-19-2007
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| Guest | Re: System Restore Points without shadow copy - there has got to be a way!! >> I've considering getting a small notebook with a 48 GB Solid State disk,
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11-19-2007
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| Guest | Re: System Restore Points without shadow copy - there has got to be a way!! make sure you use a Vista compatible version. Older versions of Ghost are not Vista compatible. -- Kerry Brown Microsoft MVP - Shell/User http://www.vistahelp.ca "Larry" <noemail@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:13k3eat145fci7a@xxxxxx
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11-20-2007
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| Guest | Re: System Restore Points without shadow copy - there has got to be a way!! >> I've considering getting a small notebook with a 48 GB Solid State disk,
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11-21-2007
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| Guest | Re: System Restore Points without shadow copy - there has got to be a way!! System Restore in Vista works much better than System restore in XP. It is a much more robust system less prone to corruption. You are trying to run Vista on quite unusual hardware. Whatever OS you use on that hardware you will have to make compromises. -- Kerry Brown Microsoft MVP - Shell/User http://www.vistahelp.ca "Larry" <noemail@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:13k7em9ot89vt2c@xxxxxx
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11-23-2007
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| Guest | Re: System Restore Points without shadow copy - there has got to b Yeah, but, if it's the system I think it is, it's worth the compromises. It is FAST, yet very small, and with an outstanding screen and keyboard -- especially for a subnotebook. "Kerry Brown" wrote:
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11-23-2007
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| Guest | Re: System Restore Points without shadow copy - there has got to b I like the idea of systems like this. I could use one myself. -- Kerry Brown Microsoft MVP - Shell/User http://www.vistahelp.ca "jimmuh" <jimmuh@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:27D23C28-82F1-43E1-AE02-B56BF4AE207A@xxxxxx
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11-23-2007
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| Guest | Re: System Restore Points without shadow copy - there has got to b Another way you might go -- you might just consider doing without System Restore altogether under Vista. It's not something I'd recommend ordinarily, but I've been running Vista very heavily on a half dozen systems since RTM, without once having to resort to System Restore. Heck, even if you do have a system failure, installing Vista is FAST (compared, say, to WinXP). As long as you keep your data backed up you should be fine -- unless you make really, really bad choices about what you install on the system. I use these Vista systems for testing software, some of it pretty attrocious. And not one time have I needed SR. "Larry" wrote:
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