We All Know How To Stop XP Deleting Restore In Vista...

Saw this thread last night, so booted Vista this morning. I just checked for Vista restore points. They were all gone. I had to give W7 a drive letter to see the Vista OS partition when I installed. May have to undo that. Created another and will boot into 7 and back to Vista later and see if the one I just created gets wiped. When I shutdown last night, all of seven's restore points were listed.

Gary

Update:Created a couple restore points in Vista this morning and then booted 7. Played around some, put it to sleep while I went out for awhile. Played around somemore and checked Vista and they are still there. Must of been something I done. can't imagine how that could happen.

Sorry to regurgitate this thread after so long, but rather than create a new one on exactly the same subject I thought it best to do it this way.

My Windows 7, despite having 15% of the 116gb HD it's installed on set for restore points, seems only capable of holding the last restore point.

I've double-checked my multi-boot XP's and they are both set in the registry to hide this partition as per the registry hack published in the Vista forums.
System Restore Points - Stop XP Dual Boot Delete - Vista Forums (note the "This needs to be done in XP, not Vista.")

I know that Vista isn't supposed to "eat it's young" à la XP but I'm wondering if, in fact, it not only can, but is actually doing that?

I hadn't previously hidden Windows 7 from Vista but now have to test my theory.

If I'm wrong then please correct me, as there must be some other reason as to why I never have more than the most recent restore point. I'm not cleaning them out myself.

As a test I've also increased the allocation to 30% of the HDD.

Perhaps I was blaming the wrong thing then. I've upped the % to use for Restore points to 30, maybe that will fix it.

Hi Peter,

It has been confirmed that dual booting with Vista and Windows 7 will not wipe each other's restore points out unlike if you dual booted one of them with XP.

You might also check to see if you have any 3rd party utlitity type programs set to clean restore points other than using Disk Cleanup.

Please let us know if increasing it to 30% helped.

Hello Peter.


You and I have been through some of this before about XP and 7 over at x64, I've had every build of Windows 7 from the beginning visible to Vista and vice-versa, and I have never had any issues with 7 messing with Vista or Vista messing with 7.















Later Ted

Yes I know, I guess I wasn't convinced...LOL.

Thanks guys.

No problem Peter.

Interesting...thanks.