Vista - Vista System Restore Points Disappear

Is it normal for my System Restore points to disappear with my dual-boot
setup? I have Vista on my first drive (in a master SATA socket) and XP on my
second drive (in slave SATA socket), with Acronis OS Selector in Vista to
switch between operating systems. [Vista was the first OS I installed, and
with the first drive disconnected I installed XP on the second drive.]

Whenever I activate XP, the next time I go back to Vista, the restore points
I had in Vista beforehand disappear. From there on, changes and new
installations bring new restore points, but the next time I visit XP, my
Vista restore points from that point disappear as well.

Can I expect this with any dual-boot setup, or, if I should decide to
reinstall everything should I install XP on my second drive first, while my
first drive is still plugged in? Or is there another solution I haven't
found yet?

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Hello,

This is a known issue for XP to wipe out Vista's restore points everytime XP starts. The tutorial below can help show you how to stop this from happening.

System Restore Points - Stop XP Dual Boot Delete

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Brink wrote:
Hello,

This is a known issue for XP to wipe out Vista's restore points
everytime XP starts. The tutorial below can help show you how to stop
this from happening.

System Restore Points - Stop XP Dual Boot Delete


Hope this helps,
Shawn
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Yup. I did some digging on the Web and found that page.

I tried the manual solution, and it worked. Too bad you lose access to the
Vista drive when you try it, and you can't restore the name you gave to the
Vista partition (it reverts back to 'Local Disk (D", which cannot be
renamed); but in my case there are not a lot of Vista files that I will want
to use for XP, anyway.

And I have more than a terabyte of external hard drives I can use as a bridge
when I flip back and forth between XP and Vista (or Linux, for that matter).

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I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted. You should still be able to access XP through Vista though. It's only XP that cannot see Vista, but a 3rd hard drive as a bridge would be best as you suggested.