Vista Tutorial - Have I blundered?

Problem is that Windows does volume processing on all visible volumes, and
the data in the Vista volume appears corrupt to XP so it deletes it.

"cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)" <cquirkenews@nospam.mvps.org> wrote in
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> On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:13:36 -0700, "John Barnes" wrote:
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>>> Or do you exclude the Vista HD from XP's System Restore?
>
>>Does not protect Vista Restore points.
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> 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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