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System Restore in Dual Boot Situations
I have seen other discussions on this before but I have not been able to find a definitive answer that parallels my situation.
I dual boot Windows 7 and Windows 10 on 2 separate hard drives.
On each of the OS's I have configured System Restore to be "ON" for the C:. drive and "OFF" for the other drive on which the other OS resides.
I create a new Restore point on my Windows 7 and it works.
I then reboot into Windows 10 and create a Restore Point on its C: drive.
I then reboot and boot into Windows 7, only to find that the Restore point I created previously is gone.
If I then boot into Windows 10, the Restore point I created there is also gone.
Windows 7 is deleting the Windows 10 Restore Point and Windows 10 is deleting the Windows 7 Restore Point.
Now, Windows 7 can "see" the Windows 10 drive and vice-versa.
Is it possible - and I think this likely - that because I have set the "non-active" OS drive in each OS to Off in System Restore, it is becoming confused and deleting the Restore Points?
If that is the case, I can solve it easily in Device Manager by tell each OS to "Disable" the drive on which the other OS resides. This way the "other OS drive" will not even appear in the list of drives in System Restore.
Any thoughts?